You put off giving a dinner party until you have perfected a souffle recipe, installed new carpeting, and repaved the driveway for the big event. Finished Product Thinking. You overlook the satisfaction from doing something, like organizing a fundraiser, and aren't happy until it's all over and the money's in the bank. Mental Filtering . The busiest people often fail to get their most important work done.
Fruit flies like apricots.
Time flies like an arrow. The basics of penal reform in the 1800s were Solitude, Hard Labor, and Religion. It was felt that solitude allowed the criminal to reflect upon his bad behavior. That hard labor freed the mind through the value of the work and the exhaustion that comes from physical exertion. And Religion's intended effect is obvious.