Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

You don’t find time and space for your best work—you make time and space

If you’re familiar with Steven Pressfield’s notion of resistance, you might think that thrashing and resistance are the same thing. They’re not. Resistance is the inner voice or actor that’s often the mouthpiece for all the head trash we carry with us. Thrashing is what we do in response to resistance.

anything that supports your best work but isn’t your best work itself, counts as an admin block.

When we properly identify lack of courage as what’s keeping us from doing our best work and thriving, it allows us to ask more powerful and pointed questions about how to go forward.

First, it’s harder to do because how you do it will be different. Learning from books and others can get you started, but at a certain point you’ll have to start blazing your own trail and end up in the no-man’s-land where everyone doing their best work ends up.

First, the stuff that’s currently on our list is there for a reason, and if it were so easy to let go of, we would have done it already.

Thrashing is the term I use for this emotional flailing and metawork we do when we don’t fully commit to our best work. What’s really going on is that we’re working out our own head trash — the fears, impostor syndrome, and (sometimes) unconscious perceptions of our own inadequacies. When we’re thrashing, we’re like the rocking chair that moves a l

Our innate talent, creativity, and drive combined with discipline are what make us forces of nature.

Your supporters are the people who are doing work with and for you to help you get the project done. More so than status or level of accomplishment, you can ask the people in this category for support and expect them to meet reasonable deadlines — guides and peers are much more removed from this aspect.

Many of us have poor team alignment not because the people on our team are in conflict but because we’re not communicating to our team what we want, need, and dream to be.