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Book # 80: –Finish What You Start – Peter Hollins

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ook📘80 Completed😊: Finish What You Start – Peter Hollins

As much as these words “Finish what you start” sounds inspiring, we all have time to time started many things and left it unfinished when it got inconvenient.

Looking back at those times, we do know the feeling of regret for not sticking to what we started being it exercise, eating healthy, pursuing our own projects.

Finish what you starts is crisp guide that diagnoses the reasons why we don’t finish many things we start (Mainly our inability to follow through) and suggests ways that empower us to finish what we start and grow with every accomplishment.

Few 🔑 Points –

• Peter divides Following through in four parts - focus, self-discipline, action, and persistence considering all equally important.

• Peter claims that reason for not able to follow through is setting unrealistic goals, procrastination, indulging in temptations, distractions, and poor time management.

• Avoid Multi-tasking - Switching from task to task is a large mental burden because you are essentially stopping and starting from zero numerous times throughout the day.

• Worrying - It is pondering on problems, real or imagined. This takes you out of the present, which you have control over, and puts you into the future or past, which you have zero control over.

• The power of system - A system is a set of actions that you consistently perform every day to streamline your success and reach your goals. Creating systems begins with having an overall goal in mind. Then you can build the scaffolding that will get you there.

Few 📌 Quotes –

1. Worrying causes you to suffer twice. Once during the worrying and again if the dreaded event occurs.

2. By not acting and not following through, we have already judged and rejected ourselves even before we’ve started.

3. A system is a set of actions that you consistently perform every day to streamline your success and reach your goals.

4. Breaking our commitments for short term pleasures may not have lasting benefits, but it does have lasting cost.

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This is truly an inspirational story about loyalty, and how to make it in life and capitalism. #FollowingThrough #AllCoolthings

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Life Lesson #3

I keep wondering why I failed those exams. This is what I cam up with today.

I didn’t follow through. Even though i did put in the work. I pushed myself hard for those days and didn’t let out I gave in at the last minute. I wasn’t focused on the day of the test. I let fear and angst  overtake me on the big day.

Life lesson: the outcome of anything that you do is intricately related to the effort that you put at every stage of that project.

Examples: 

1) You study for 3 months but on the day of the test you loose focus --> you just undermined that 3 months of studying by not doing what you had to do on the last day.

2) Your in a relationship for 10 years with someone but when you go through hard times in year 10 you give up on the person/relationship --> you just undermined the effort that you put in for the past 10 years. 

I think this goes back to the 80% problem I was referring to before. I guess I really need to work on that.  

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1/9 Success

It was challenging for me to leave my bf’s home on Sunday night...but I did so that I could get to bed early. I still ended up falling asleep at midnight, but at least I was in the right place at the right time. I’m glad I stuck to my word too. :D