Do not punish imperfect consistency by replacing it with perfect absence.

A strange logic says that if you cannot do it properly, you should not do it at all. Followed honestly, it converts a slightly disappointing effort into a complete absence, which is worse by every measure. The imperfect version was never the problem. Abandoning it is.

Watch for the moment you catch yourself thinking that a partial effort is not worth making. That thought is not high standards. Do the partial thing anyway and see how much less it costs than you predicted.