It’s hard to finish because completion is always opposed, challenged, resented or feared. By others and by yourself.
While those closest to you often cheer and celebrate you, others will be unsettled by you completing. Even if the completion is related to simple tasks. Completion threatens others, it pushes others to examine why they’ve not finished what they’ve started.
It is also difficult because completion means opening yourself up to critique. Once you determined that something is “finished” you have to put it out there to be judged. For many people that can be difficult emotionally.
Completion is difficult because everything in us fights against it. We comfort ourselves with thoughts like “I’ve tried”, “At least I got started” and “It’s just too difficult” in order to make us feel better about not finishing.
It’s also a spiritual problem, we are opposed on a spiritual level. Everything in this world fights against victory and completion of something good. To finish is to do something spiritual, no matter how practical the task.
So whatever it is, work hard to finish, to complete what you’ve begun. You’ll experience emotional, personal and spiritual breakthrough whenever you “complete.”
What thoughts, discouragements and beliefs keep you from completing? In my life I’ve noticed that I struggle to complete tasks that seem to “stretch on forever”. The task becomes bigger and bigger in my mind, making it hard to want to finish. Share with me what you think about completion.
David Curry