Why Finishing is the Hardest Part of any Project, and How to Do it Anyway
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Why Finishing is the Hardest Part of any Project, and How to Do it Anyway
Because the truth of the matter is, most people don’t finish things! Look around you, the evidence is everywhere: People don’t finish. They begin ambitious projects with the best of intentions, but then they get stuck in a mire of insecurity and doubt and hairsplitting . . . and they stop.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
most time management books end too early because the hardest part about managing time isn’t the plan, it’s the day-by-day follow-through: getting started, sticking to your areas of focus, ignoring nonpriorities, and avoiding the allure of unproductive busyness. Follow-through may seem easy, but it’s not. It’s where most of us fail. And yet it’s the
... See morePeter Bregman • 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Your ambition is not to write the Great American Novel. Your ambition is to finish the damn book. This is a lesson I’ve had to learn over and over again. It’s true of so many things in our lives. Because we’re afraid of failing, sometimes we turn away from it and don’t do it at all. As much as it would have hurt to write a book that everyone hated,... See more