How to Finish Everything You Start

by Jan Yager

You can’t finish something if you can’t even find what you’re supposed to be doing in the first place.

Disorganization is also tied to clutter. If you have piles and piles of papers, and books, and files, and you failed to put away the file that contains the project that you are working on, it is going to be hard to find that project, and to work on it in a timely fashion.

you need to muster your emotional strength to push on to get done what needs to be done.

If you find it hard to stick with things because you need immediate gratification, it can lead to not finishing something.

One way to deal with this is to break up a big task into more manageable little tasks. That could help someone with low frustration tolerance. You just have to do each little task rather than the overwhelming big one.

If you have a problem with impatience, the first step is to be aware of it. The next step is to learn to work in self-contained units so you avoid getting too exhausted or overwhelmed so that you start losing temper or making mistakes.

If you find yourself really frustrated with a more complicated project or task, if possible, you can delegate some aspects of the work to others.

Taking a walk, meditating, calling or texting a friend (if you do it in a way that does not make others think that you are goofing off at work), listening to music, exercising, reading books or positive articles on the Internet.

Anger gets in the way of completion more often than we’d like to admit.

You could be angry at someone you work with or displacing and projecting your anger to the person you’ll be submitting a project to, or even the team that is awaiting your material.

Anger is shutting you down. Making you reluctant to finish whatever because you are angry.

for most of us, working under pressure backfires.

Developing, and maintaining, a steady rhythm of performance usually goes a lot further than working in intense spurts.

Putting projects in front of you, or sticking reminders on a bulletin board, looks disorganized and cluttered.

Lateness is impolite to others.

Occasional lateness, especially if it’s justified, is usually forgiven and forgivable.

Your delays, which translate into being late, show that you consider yourself and your time more important than others.

Sometimes it takes just the right amount of self-love and self-esteem to keep yourself on track till you finish

If you devalue what you must finish, you might think that no one really cares, or it will not make that much of an impact, if you finish anyway,

Finally, most of us will agree that having a routine can make it easier to stick to something until it is done.

Consistency is a concept that has a different meaning for each of us. One person’s routine may be another person’s boredom.