Have you ever gone to do something and thought to yourself how it should only take you 30 minutes or so but then you end up still being on that task four hours later?
How about when you start a task and you think it is going to go one way but then part of the way in you realize that it actually isn't going to math out properly, and if you would've just done one simple step beforehand you could've saved yourself a whole bunch of time and energy?
Yeah, that is overcomplicating things.
I VERY often overcomplicate the tasks that I try to take on. For instance, I have a cube shelf organizer that I got back in college. I built it and placed all my Build-A-Bears in it when I moved into my new apartment but it wasn't big enough. So I bought another one (keep in mind the original is from almost six years ago at this point) and I was worried about it being a different color but I figured I could just deconstruct the original and mix in the new color to make it cohesive. Well, I did not worry about it being a different size, so when the package arrived I immediately started taking the original down and then as I was preparing to rebuild it, I finally realized that they were two completely different size pieces and would not be able to go together. In the end, I ended up just rebuilding the original the exact same way I had it and then built the second structure and placed it beside the first. I took up an extra hour, minimum, of my time with this little mishap though. And it all could have been saved by me just building the new structure from the beginning. Or even by placing just one piece from the new one beside the original while it was built.
Assumptions can also cause complications I suppose.
Don't make assumptions.
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