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

Projects are bridges because it’s only by doing them that we create the paths our souls want to walk. As we create and change the world, we create and change ourselves. But we don’t do real creation and change work in our heads; we have to roll up our sleeves and mix the stuff of the world together to create new realities.

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.

One of the first things you probably encountered is that, after a few hours or days of doing it, the commitments, expectations, and challenges of your normal life rudely disrupted your best intentions and took back over. If your best work was like everything else you’re doing, you could just write it off as something you didn’t really want to do. B

Discipline channels our energy into purposeful, constructive action; a lack of discipline diffuses our energy into destructive outlets — and what we destroy the easiest and most often is ourselves.

Head trash always looks absurd when you state it directly because you see it for what it is. It’s the adult version of the monster under the bed; its power over us rests upon it remaining in the darkness.

If you don’t set up boundaries for your best work and from the things that keep you from doing it, your best work will always be displaced by other things.

Undercultivation of intention is easier to grasp and see in ourselves and others than overcultivation of intention, at least at first blush. But when we look around and see how stricken with anxiety people are because they’re so focused on achieving certain goals by certain times by certain ways, it’s easy to see how much people’s suffering comes f

plans only create clarity, not certainty.