What matters

I was working on an addition I'm building on to my house today.  I had kinda an epiphany.  I tend to be very detail oriented.  So much so I miss the point or the bigger picture.  We were stringing wire thru the wall studs to wire in the receptacles. The wire will be covered with dry wall so as long as they are out of the way it doesn't freaking matter what they look like.  I was routing everything plumb and making 45 and 90 degree turns using a staple every 8 inches and then I looked over to see what he was doing and he had his part done it was just all hanging there.  It was functional, it wasn't in the way of anything and it was fine.  I got caught up in the details, so much so on something that wouldn't be visible and didn't even matter, that it took me four times longer to do virtually the same thing.  My point being, for those of us that are detail oriented, we can get absorbed in the details of life and lose sight of what's important.  Make sure the priorities in your life are indeed your priorities.