Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

An additional upshot to discipline is that it limits the decision fatigue that plagues so many of us. A consistent morning routine eliminates scores of choices every day. Habits remove other choices. Time blocking removes more choices about when you’ll do what type of work. Every decision removed from a day frees up mental and creative energy that

as children, for a lot of us, discipline very often meant punishment or pain.

Over the course of three to five years we age and aren’t able to do some things like we used to, but we find other things to do.

A project is anything that requires time, energy, and attention to complete.

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

Starting only stuffs more stuff into those already-full drawers. Enough is enough.

There’s always some idyllic time in the future when it will make sense to focus on your best work.

Undercultivation of intention is easier to grasp and see in ourselves and others than overcultivation of intention,

Our lives follow a similar pattern. Every three to five years something is importantly different. We move to new places. Our kids, siblings, and parents go through thresholds that may require us to adapt. We go through stages of dating and marriage every three to five years. Over the course of three to five years we age and aren’t able to do some t