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Having a Hard Time Finishing?
written by Steven Bristol on March 1st, 2010
My father always told me that the hardest part of any job is finishing it. Here are somethings you can do to make it easier to finish:
- Launch. If you don’t launch, you’ll never finish.
- Have a reason to finish. “To make my wife/parent/child proud.” “I’m going to change the world with this.” Keep this reason in mind when the going gets tough.
- Don’t do it alone. Have someone that will pick you up and keep you going.
- Make something people will fall in love with. And then fall in love with helping them.
- Put all your eggs in your own basket. If the the other option is going to work for someone else… Who wants that?
- Wear cool shoes. This won’t actually help you finish other than you’ll know you’ll look cool once you do.
- Not only will you feel like a failure if you don’t finish, but by definition you will be a failure.
- You are awesome! Not finishing is not an option.
- Your friends will quickly tire of congratulating and encouraging you on yet another new idea. (They never tire of it if you finish.)
- Your mother will love you anyways, but she will love you more if you don’t quit. Yes she will.
- You’ll look better at your high school reunion.
- You’ll feel better about yourself.
- Whatever you do next will be more successful.
- Chicks dig quitters. Not.
- Would you rather tell the story of how you gave up or that you finished it and gave it everything you had?
12 Responses to “Having a Hard Time Finishing?”
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Thanks for the post. I just launched my second personal product (www.bookticker.com). It doesn’t do half of what I want it to do, but it does to what it does well. I love books and I love to see what other people are reading. I got tired of the momentary snapshot of best seller’s list, so I built a site that tracks bestsellers over time. You can click on any book and you can see a chart of how popular the book is.
Benefits:What about - - it might make you some money.
I know we are all supposed to be doing these things because we have a massive “passion”, but a little bit of money and roof over the head sure helps.
ps I like the high school reunion one!!
Thanks for this Steven
I have two half finished websites that I have been putting off…I’m going to finish one now so my Mum will love me more when I tell her what I want for my birthday soon haha
Andy
Nice, I’ve got stuff to finish this month AND a high school reunion this year. Great timing!
@craig,
I assumed that money was already a motivator, but you’re right, let’s not forget to list it.
Good stuff. Thanks for that and the code you have contributed. This post goes well with something I wrote and stuck on the wall a few months ago:
I may be right or I may be wrong, but I will certainly be something.
I like the Mom line too. My Mom called to apologize for posting a comment on my blog about me in diapers. I told her “not to worry, every entrepreneur has a Mom.” She laughed. I moderated it out anyway :)
Great post Steve!
thanks guys.. just can’t finish my college, watduf! is this.. im on my 5th yr of college but my course should only take 4 years. I always have a good kick start but during halfway i start to lose interest.
Great post, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’ll share a quote I came across.
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.”
— Why the Lucky Stiff
Hi Anton,
Thanks for sharing the quote, but in this case, like many others, I think _why is full of shit.
Have taste!!! Having taste is what ensures what you create is good and remarkable.
If no musician ever had taste, all music would be as bad as _why’s.
they say the beginning is the hardest part of anything you do. but there is some point in your words. i can tell it from my own experience. always ready to start a new project, when it comes to an end striving for perfection it slways seems to me that smth is lacking and i can’t finish it, making changes… glad to know i’m not the only one:)
Great list! Those 15 reasons are enough to finish an unfinished job. I agree with the third one. It is sure nice to do it with someone so that he can encourage you to go on.