Always be closing the loops. If you start something, finish it. That’s it. No negotiating with yourself. No giving yourself excuses. Just finish it. The rewards come in the process and in the finish, not for those who just start things.
I realized I made a mistake this week. A mistake not of wrong judgment, but a mistake of not finishing something all the way. I left it one step before the end, and it cost me $$.
Why, do you ask? Because I was in a rush. In retrospect, I don’t even remember what I was in a rush for.
So how do I fix it going forward? You do 4 simple steps.
- Define the finish line
- Set the constraints
- Implement
- Don’t be spontaneous
- No phone
- Close the loop
Steps 1 and 4 are the most important steps. Don’t overoptimize too soon. Get it done and out there, and then you can make it better.
Just to clarify, finishing things does not mean what you think it means. It means that you knew what you were going for at the beginning, and when you’re done, you can say that you did it. Let’s use a few examples: if I’m reading a book, and it’s the kind of book that I don’t need to go through every page of, but just get the main ideas, that’s still finishing if I get what I wanted from the book. Another example is when the finish changes. Sometimes, what you think the finish will look like is not how it’s actually going to be. And that’s okay. But you still finish it.
In conclusion, finish your circles, or the circles will drain your soul.
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V.K.