Easy or Better?

As a coach I am often in pursuit of more education/learning/information that can be helpful or aid when I am working with a client.  As I set up this blog to share these insights, here's another...

In choices you make, do you choose "EASY" over "BETTER"?  Often our mode and mood can have us in a hurry, and as a dad sometimes looking after my boys "easy" is far too easy to pass up sometimes.  In some cases, waiting and doing the "better" over the quick (dirty?) "easy" can pay-off much sweeter in the end.

An "Easy" I took advantage of over the weekend went like this.  With the help of my aforementioned sons we went about the task of cleaning Dauphinee (my wife's car).  While my youngest considered playing far more important, my older boy went to it with the shop-vac with gusto on the floors and upholstery.  When it came to washing the outside, here's where the "easy" took pole-position in front of "better".  As it was a slightly chilly and quite windy day, hand-washing the car wasn't a preferable way to go about cleaning the car.  For less than $10 we did the "easier", and the boys enjoyed the time in the car with my as the "robot" touchless car-wash did it's thing.  When we got back home, and got the boys inside for some lunch I took a few minutes to look over the job that "neato" robot did.  In a nutshell: Crap-tacular!  I needed to re-washed the windows, wipe off some of the grime it missed along the bottom of the doors, and so on.  Naturally a much better job would have been done if I'd done it all by hand (and even with the waxing it'd be cheaper!). 

This is just one minor (real-life) example of the "better" being side-stepped for "easy".  How many business, or even more-major personal decisions have been blown when you chose "easy" over "better"?

~E