It’s time to finish what I start
Starting something is easy. It’s where I get the most comfortable. The first part always brings me joy because I get the opportunity to get on the “ground floor,” a chance to see the potential of an enterprise and fantasize about making it work. I get to look straight up and imagine the skyscraper that potentially could happen.
In a sense, its renewal. I get to start with “fresh eyes” and forget about the stuff in the past. I get to release my “burdens” and become whole with the new.
Where this picture goes “left” is when I leave the beginning, and find myself in the middle, or what I like to call “the boring.”
Keeping the ball in the air is difficult. It requires a bit of faith, especially when you find yourself in “the boring.” “The boring” is what I like to call the part of the project when there is no movement from anywhere. It feels like you are in the middle of the ocean, and can’t see land. The coast line is gone, and it’s just the hot sun and hope that what you do here translates into another shoreline(In some cases, even the shoreline you just left)
What is a weapon to counteract “the boring?” Persistence, the theme for the month of March.
This month’s theme ties into execution
At the end of last year I wrote a post that resulted in me picking 5 themes for 2016. They are the guiding light (strategic) for my ideas. Each month on this blog, I break things down into the practical (tactical). This year I want to tie them together, so each month, I have to write the reason they connect.
Persistence will lock me into executing because I am promising to finish everything I begin this month to its logical end. I’ll learn lessons on how to get things done.
Reread candidate
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker – A fantastic primer on getting the right things done, and how to see them to the end when you pick them.
Other candidates
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Assumptions
- Be deliberate as possible
- Selection is far more important than will
- I need to schedule things to make sure they get done
From the desk of Adam Thomas 