Can I really do this #4

[SteveLW]

JS, sounds like you're getting the hang of things.

I liked the post on time and patience. I've used this analogy before. It is like Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption. He chiseled his tunnel to freedom one handful of rubble at a time. He could have easily become discouraged and given up. Progress (it took 20 years) was slow. He could have become greedy and gotten caught (if he had tried to speed it up by doing more than a handful at a time).

No, his path forward was patience. And time. Patience to stick to the plan. Time to let the plan work. He kept the long-term goal in mind....freedom.

And then even after 20 years of being patient and letting time pass, he still had to crawl through 500 yards of filth and crap to get to freedom.

Andy Dufresne's journey to freedom is very similar to LBS's journey through their sitch....but freedom, one way or the other, rests on the other side.