Sometimes the only way to know what it looks like–what it truly looks like from top to bottom in the bright light of day–is to build the entire thing.

And sometimes–many times, in some cases–you will have to get a wrecking ball and start over. Not necessarily from scratch, but keeping the core and getting rid of the rest.

Nobody said that creating was easy.

If you’re setting about constructing something that’s already been done ten thousand times, then maybe you won’t have to get a wrecking ball. Maybe the building will stand there for a long time, unoccupied and unsold.

But if you want to do something new and fresh and amazing, you need to build it. All of it.

Maybe you’ll get lucky.

Or maybe you’ll stand there looking at some disfigured mess when you’re all done.

That’s the only way you’ll know how to fix it and repair it and build it in to something beautiful.

Finish, then start over again.