McClellanville SC, circa 1890
“We rate ability in
men by what they finish; not what they start.”
- Unknown
“Finishing races is
important, but racing itself is more important.” - Dale Earnhardt
“It’s the job that is
never started that’s the toughest to finish.”
- J.R. Tolkien
It is said that
showing up is half the battle. It is also said that getting started is half the battle.
There are times we struggle with procrastination – starting on things
that we know need to be done. But after
we overcome that and get underway, many of us struggle again. We have a habit of getting things most of the
way to completion, then launching some new endeavor. The next thing we know we have a life full of
half-done projects that annoy us.
Unfinished projects have a way of
decaying, and something we had ninety percent of the way done has a way of deteriorated
to sometimes being worse than it was had it never been started. It has been popular to talk about
“multi-tasking,” but how often does that really work? Don’t we soon find ourselves just running
back and forth putting out fires, annoyed when we have to revisit projects that
in our mind we had finished?
There is a joy to be had by learning to
bring things to completion – to putting on the finishing touches. We can stand back and say “I did that,” and
then allow ourselves to fully focus on the planning stage of the next project
before us. We have more confidence in
ourselves as we know we are a person that sees things through. In the long run we are more efficient because
we are not foolishly burning energy refocusing all the time. And if it is what others think of us that is
driving us to do this? Well, no one is
revered for the number of projects they left unfinished.
Today, may I finish
what I have started.
Happy Friday !!
David
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