Making Yourself Finish

I love starting things. Why? Don’t act like you don’t know it’s a lot easier to START an idea than to fully execute it.

But starting and not finishing doesn’t pay the bills. No one wants to read a half finished blog post, a half finished novel, or a half-finished movie.

Nope, they want the whole thing.

That’s why I currently have 6 works in progress on the book front and pages of half finished blog posts. It’s because I have shiny ball syndrome

~ CAKE ~

and I get a great idea as I’m half way into the current idea.

However, I’ve learned how to make it work. It all comes back to planning and then holding yourself accountable (which is the much harder part).

The reason it’s hard to finish, at last fro me, is because the first half is much more fun than the 2nd half. By then whatever I’m working on isn’t new and shiny anymore, and I want to move on.

But I can’t so I set myself incremental goals and rewards for when they’re met.

They’re often silly things. Such as:

write 2000 words and I can have Tacos for dinner
get that blog post done before you can get up and go the bathroom
finish answering emails and you can read something fun (not necessary for work purposes) for 30 minutes

But the point is silly or not they push me to get the work done.

How do you push yourself to reach the finish line?

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