Finishing vs starting

There is a lot of said in a self-help culture about starting things. You have a business that you want to start: "yea! you should absolutely go and start that". You have a project that you have been thinking about for a while: "Go start". It is this whole idea, this whole psychology around if you can just get yourself start. You know starting is the hardest thing you got to get into it, go free, do it, stop talking about it, start!

The problem is if people is bad at starting it, they are even worst at finishing things. Most people never even get past the first chapter of the book, they literally starts books and then they put them down and they never read to the end of them. Meanwhile they are in the bookstore the next week looking for the next book on their reading list. People don't finish things and it's a sad thing that they don't finish things because they take all of this enjoyment from starting, forgetting that there is untold enjoyment in finishing. The satisfaction of getting something done, a feeling like you have a complete project, getting to the end of it, and being able to put that stamp then says: "I'm done, I finished I don't need to look at this again. It's done". There is so much enjoyment we can take from that. But we do not get it when we half hurdling move from one project to the next as soon as one gets difficult or lacks interest we move onto the next one.

Imagine your life and the way you go through, it is that you are building a portfolio of different pieces of work, different pieces of art, different assets that at the end of your life you will be able to look back on. Now imagine the satisfaction at looking back at all these finished pieces instead of looking back at all these half finished project. You go into a museum and see that beautiful painting: "Awww, this only half of it done and the other half is still a blank canvas". You see finished pieces of work for better or worse they are finished.

People don't finish because they are so worried that: A - they have lost interest or B - they don't know how to finish it or they feel like if I finish it and draw a line under it then it won't be as good as it can be. But I put to you the something that is 70% as good as it can be and finished is better than something that shows 90% potential but it is 10% done.

So, find something today that you have not finished, find something that you keep saying to yourself you gonna finish you keep putting it off and get back into that and actually finish it, strategize it into completion instead of going on finding something else in strategizing the beginning of it. Get going on completing a task. I promise you the rewards the satisfaction, the fulfillment and the confidence that you will get from finishing is far greater than any moment to a childish enjoyment you get from just starting something new.