Finish What You Start

It sounds easy enough to do and actually quite logical.  But it’s something that’s harder to do in practice than in theory.  The other day I was on the bus – on my way to work – and I was fumbling through my purse for a tube of lip balm.  Nothing fancy, just a Blistex stick.  And that’s when it happened…I found my secret stash hidden in a zipper pocket – there were 4 tubes all of different flavours!!  Why in the name of all that is lip moisturizer did I have 4 tubes of the same thing, all of which were almost brand new??  This small, seemingly irrelevant realization got me thinking of something a lot bigger.  How we are all guilty of starting new things and abandoning them before we see them through.  How we are easily distracted from function and purpose to newer and different ideas without closing the book on what we started. 

 This becomes a repetitive cycle and slowly becomes a way of life, simply because the cycle is never broken.  But this type of behaviour generates lots of clutter – both physical and mental – that prevents us from achieving our goals and stretching the boundaries of our potential.