www.productivity501.com: If you want to be productive, you must complete work. Almost everything we do has multiple stages to completion and in many situations, you don’t actually create value until you finish the last stage. Farmers can’t sell their grain until it is harvested. Automakers can’t sell a bunch of cars that have made it 90% of the way through the assembly line. Most employers aren’t going to pay you for having a degree unless you finished the last class and graduated.
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I think this is a really important article for the members of my generation and the people of the time as we feel our time is to important to finish things that we have started once we have lost interest. People will often have these great ideas and concepts but once they have started the project and/or are close to finishing a project they will start to lose interest or the thing doesn't turn out the way that they wanted and instead of continuing to see what the final product. The plan to finish is also very important as it is not just wanting to create something but to finish that something and going after each and every step towards that ultimate goal provides the person with a small sense of achievement and satisfaction as if they can see the finish line or want it bad enough that they don't just stop in the middle of the race and go home. That sounds crazy to think about here but I'm sure we have all started project with intentions of finishing them but never had the full desire to actually do it at the time.
I think this article brings up a good point that many people forget. Whenever I get stressed by looking at an enormous amount of various homework to do, my parents always tell me to take it one step at a time, focus on one project at the time and then your tasks won;t seem as daunting. This way, each little victory of getting a specific project done gave me more confidence in the other projects I had yet to tackle. I agree with the article in that sometimes it can be good to take a look at the whole picture before you decide how to tackle the smaller projects. This way you can decide which projects are the most important and create a strategy for how to execute the projects at hand. This also helps when some projects must be given up on. Overall, I think many people try to focus on too many things at a time and if they just focused on getting things done then they will have an easier time doing so.
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