Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

Spiritual insights such as these also show up in our everyday lives. Think about how often you’ve engaged in retail therapy — and thus destroyed your time and resources — because you’re unsatisfied about something in your life. Think about how often you’ve indulged in emotional eating because you’re not creating the change you want to see in your l

Creativity and destruction are seen as a continual loop in the Taoist concept of yin and yang.

There’s a reason that nearly every spiritual tradition links creativity and destruction: the same energy that fuels creation also fuels destruction.

Our ability to feel positive emotional peaks is diminished at the same time that our ability to feel negative emotional troughs is amplified.

Creative constipation leads to behaviors in which we lash out at the world — and sometimes even more intensely at ourselves.

our head trash gets more pronounced and intense,

We don’t want to do any more projects. We don’t want to set any more goals or plans. We’re full and fed up.

at a certain point, we get toxic. We don’t want to take in any more ideas.

We take in ideas and inspiration that get converted into aspirations, goals, and projects, and at a certain point, if we’re not pushing them out in the form of finished projects, they start to back up on us.