Posing

This is a subject that I often think about regularly. I found I began to enjoy my work a lot more once I paid attention to the individual pose. To easily I can become distracted by the cool pose in the middle or the cool hand position 3 frames further ahead. Each pose matters, allowing the computer free rain of placement of any parts of the model just detract from those all important Golden poses.
In my earlier animations I would just rush about the timeline plotting as many rough frames as possible trying to make it all happen at once. An experience I would liken to attempting to dress yourself was running down the stairs, its just not the best way to get something done. So i'm going to continue to take it slow and enjoy even the less dramatic poses, each of them matter after all.
Its always a great thing to be excited about a scene or even an exercise but maintaining discipline and doing things the right way will definitely save time in the long run. I do love to stick in those secondary motions often before the whole motion is blocked... "I haven't finished yet, but doesn't that secondary wrist action look convincing!" .. yeah it will do for a full hour or so before you realise the timing is all off and that wrist action serves as a knot to untangle once you have relayed your foundations.
In short, a bit more control and less haste, enjoying each and every pose as you go will save a lot of time feeling the ups and downs of a scene increase and decrease in quality for reasons that despite being glaringly obvious, elude you long after frustration has claimed many a fistful of hair.