While it may not clear the air, it clears the psyche for works that have a better chance of completion. It's part laziness and impatience, part disregard for detail and simply part of the creative abundance that stops us on project one and moves us over to project two. For some of us it's enough to know that we can do it. We only need to take the job to the point where we know where it's going. Boredom sets in.
Completion is redundant because it's good enough in the head.
There may be no effective antidote to this condition. A handy device Something that has helped me to value my work more and finish properly is your technique of keeping pristine, beautiful frames in the studio and using the secondary easel. All in all a very handy device. I have the opportunity to enjoy the painting, see where I'm succeeding and also decide how I am going to improve in the next one. For quite some time now I have been perplexed by my own procrastination, bordering almost on reluctance, in signing my paintings.