4 Reasons why You Don’t Finish What You Started
Are you someone who buys book and never reads, joins gym only to quit after a week or you have a business idea that you never take it forward then it’s possible that you are a victim of the following reasons.
Procrastination
First and more obvious reason is procrastination. The brain wants to protect itself when indulging yourself in doing anything that is uncomfortable or complex. This makes you to postpone the activity. In order to train your brain to perform these actions, you can make the actions in smaller increments. If you want to join a gym then try to make your brain get comfortable by doing smaller workouts at home for few weeks before joining. By doing this way the brain get wired to perform the next bigger actions.
No Proper Planning
Another important reason why you fail is because you don’t have any plans. If you let things to happen at their own pace then you are most likely not get anything done. You have to have a to do list with you. Add a timeline to the tasks and try to finish it on time.
Planning what to do on any given day sets up a clear vision for the day without getting distracted by any other work that is not in your priority. As Benjamin Franklin said “Failing to plan is planning to fail”
Overwhelming
Most of us keep just one thing in mind about doing something. For example if you want to start a business, you just keep telling others that you are planning to start business that you never really started. The reason is having this one thought “Start a Business” does not really tell you want to do, there are hundreds of small actions to take in starting a business.
You know that it involves lot of process but you never really sit and write it down or break it into actionable pieces. To give an example on how you can break it, let us assume that you are trying to start a business.
First step would be to find out what type of business you want to start, then find where most of your targeted customers are located, finding nearest manufacturers, get the shop ready, hiring people, marketing and so on. By breaking it into these steps give you actionable things to do instead of having having it as an idea.
Getting Sidetracked
In today’s information overload it is easy to get distracted. Successful people know what to ignore. It’s so easy to get sidetracked and abandon your current plans. For example let’s say that you decided to start a jewellery shop and doing the ground works for the shop, when you are all done and ready to start the business someone tells you that starting a car dealership is much more profitable than doing a jewellery shop.
Then you quickly get panic of losing a high profitable business, so you dump your jewellery shop and start researching about a car dealership. Unless you get a mental clarity on what you want to do, you will always get distracted by something else.
By realizing and fixing these four things, you can be more successfully in completing what you started.
