Finish What You Started

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."
David Allen"Getting Things Done"

Do you feel like there are just too many things for you to get done and the day just isn't long enough? In our society, we are very action oriented. We feel we are expected to get as much done as possible in our lives. We take on as many projects as possible. We feel guilty if we just sit down for a while and do nothing.

In fact, some people claim that we are turning into a society of ADHD. We can't even pay attention to news stories that last more than a few minutes; enough attention to really understand what is going on behind the events that are shaping our lives.

What we are missing is focus. We don't know what we really want to accomplish in our lives so we try to accomplish everything. And because there isn't time to do everything, we never get anything finished. There are always more urgent and/or appealing projects to get started instead. But there is a price to pay for this.

We never have the satisfaction of having completed a job and having spent enough time and undivided attention to it to have done it well. Another problem is that we only have enough attention for so many things at a time. If you have several unfinished projects, you don't have as much attention to pay to bringing new opportunities into your life. And, as Jack Canfeild says "The truth is that 20 things completed have more power than 50 things half completed. One finished book, for instance, that can go out and influence the world is better than 13 books you're in the process of writing."

Determine what you want to get accomplished in life, decide the first step to take towards that, and don't allow yourself to get distracted. Your life will be a lot less stressful that way.

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