Episode #63: 7 Ways To Finish What You Start More Often

Are you struggling to stay committed to an intention that you set?

 

You are not alone. We've all done it. 

 

The pain is this- we know if we pursue this goal it’s got the opportunity to better our lives. 

 

We know it’s got the ability to help us move forward, and yet, we allow ourselves to get derailed. And then we blame ourselves.

 

Here are seven hacks to help you finish what you start.

 

1) Celebrate your commitment. 

 

Right here, by reading this, YOU are taking the first step. 

 

Don’t worry about that you didn’t do anything yet, just for a moment celebrate the fact that you’ve made a commitment.

 

2) Get clarity of the ambitions, principles, and philosophies that you will stand for.

 

When we can make our actions matter to something bigger than ourselves plus our external wants we add ‘sticking power’ to our ambitions, as in you will STICK to what you set out to do.

 

That kind of burning desire is a gateway to having the focus to finish what you start. 

 

3) Create White Space In Your Day

 

You’ve got so much busy work going on that you don’t have enough of life’s work going on. 

 

That’s why I want you to get clarity on those ambitions and those principles and those philosophies and what you want to stand for in life, because then you’re going to make space for it. 

 

4) Play the long game. 

 

Quick wins are important for confidence for sure and they help to keep the energy going, but you have to understand the principle of life that says whatever you’re pursuing, whatever that interest is that matters, whatever that commitment is, whatever that thing that you want to do out there is, even if it’s just your health or to make more money, you’ve got to play the long game. 

 

5) Get more fascinated.

 

A lot of people are just not fascinated with the right things that they need for the skill they’re trying to obtain. 

 

What are you going to get fascinated with so that you’re willingly going to go deep in the study, deep in the practice of, so that you can move forward?

 

6) Be more deliberate and be resilient. 

 

In order for you to achieve what you want to do, you need to put yourself into more deliberate practice and process. 

 

Get your mindset into practice, back to why I want you fascinated, why I want you playing the long game, why I want you knowing what your ambitions and aspirations are. 

 

7) Accept control and responsibility. 

 

When we don’t take responsibility, we feel that the control is not in our hands, yet, if we understand the fundamental principle and law of nature of life that we can take responsibility and if we do then we are in control of our efforts and our results. 

 

If we’re in control of our efforts and results, we take responsibility for what we get. 

 

I’m not saying it’s going to happen fast. 

I’m not going to say it’s going to happen perfectly. 

 

But, I’m saying, with these seven things, you can go out and finish what you start and if you finish more of what you start you could just end up being part of changing the world.

 

Peace. 

 

- V