Course Correction or Changing Course?
So, what is the difference between a course correction and changing course?
Pilots have to plot a course.
Report their intended course.
Check their course.
and sometimes, they must make a course correction.
Other times the plane is diverted to a completely different airport, possibly in a completely different state.
Making a course correction is not a bad thing, particularly if the error is found early and the correction isn't drastic.
Sometimes the error goes on for a while and will require serious effort to make the correction.
Even then, if the correction will put you back on the path to where you want to go, it is still a very good thing.
Sometimes, we just abandon the course when the going gets too tough, and often right before we are about to achieve the goal we set out for ourselves.
Let me explain this in painting terms:
When you first start a painting, you have an idea.
You sketch out your idea, maybe.
You set up a palette.
You get out your brushes.
You make sure you have everything you need.
You start the painting.
For me I start with the underpainting.
I block in large areas of color and it doesn't look like much.
I add cool somewhat blurry details in the background.
I add warmer more defined details in the mid ground.
I add even warmer brighter details in the foreground.
Still it doesn't look good and I get frustrated.
Doesn't look like much
I have two choices at this point.
Push forward adding highlights and shadows
(course corrections)
Or abandon the whole painting
(change courses)
I'm sticking with it. Not sure why at this point.
Experience has taught. me to keep going.
Keep adding shadows for depth
and highlights to give the painting life and form.
I'm starting to like at least this part.
Sometimes it is one simple brushstroke
that changes a painting.
Oh yea, now we're getting someplace.
One stroke where you realize,
Oh Yea! This is going to work!
This is going to be beautiful.
I am going to love this.
I'm falling in love with this.
What if I had given up before I got to the ONE Stroke?
Think of all the lessons I would never have learned if I gave up before I got to the magical part of the painting.
Almost every artist passes through the ugly phase of almost every painting, then the magic starts to happen.
But you have to pass through the ugly part first.
You don't get the magic first and then go through the ugly.
It's always the other way around.
So I guess the moral of the story is,
DO NOT GIVE UP!
Keep learning,
Keep figuring things out
Keep improving
Keep painting
and loving it.
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