There are points in the collecting career where you might stop for a moment to catch your breath and look at things differently, provided your inner compulsion to acquire coins doesn't blind you in the process.

But that compulsion to acquire may remain and serve you well provided you allow yourself to maintain clarity of purpose.

It's the tenacity to the clarity of purpose, the constant defining and re-defining your goals and how you go about them that gives you the chance to change within the context you so define. So when we mature in what it is that we see, and extend that maturity into what we acquire, you can then develop the best set that you can, no matter what the time factor is or what level of income you have.

Patience is indeed the virtue that is required in all varieties of achievement. Change can occur through time.