Lessons from a filing cabinet

Before...

I believe that part of knowing yourself well and living out your calling is recognizing things that you don't do well.  Generally, I'm not the most gifted in the area of putting together furniture.  It's definitely not something I'd choose to spend my free time doing.  That being said, I bought this 97ish pound locking filing cabinet to use in my new office.  In the pictures you can see a before and after. Regardless of my skill level, putting this together was something I had to complete.  It was something I needed to do to ultimately better serve my clients.  And serving my clients was what motivated me to complete this task. 

---

...approximately 5 to 6 hours later.

Lessons learned: 
1) The experience of doing something is different from just reading about how to do something.  Reading the instruction manual was different from actually assembling the cabinet.
2) Passion to your calling can motivate you to activity, even activities that you are not the most skilled at.

---