By Leo Babauta
‘There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.’ ~Robert Byrne
The early draft of this post sat in my system for about a week. How’s that for irony?
Many of us are good at starting things — it’s the finishing that we need help with.
The truth is, it might seem funny that my post on “How to Finish” sat unfinished for 7 days, but I’m actually decent at finishing. I start a whole bunch of articles and books, and let those ideas germinate. When I’m ready to focus on them, I get them to done pretty easily.
How? Many people wrote in to ask me to write a post called “How to Finish” after I wrote about How to Start. Reader Anthony Zullo, for example,... More...