Finishing Is The Key to Starting

I ran across a statement this weekend that got me thinking (again)

In order for there to be a start, there has to be a finish

I love to start new things - new books, new workouts, new marathon trainings, new trips, new projects.  However, I am not always great about finishing.  At this moment, there are at least five books on my nightstand, two more on my Nook, and one in my computer bag.  All but the one in my bag has been started, and then put on pause.  Projects - well, let's just say I have been working on my office and organizing files for a good long time.   I've been starting a diet every Monday since November, but never finishing the unhealthy eating habits that have crept back into my routine.  And as a side note - diets don't work anyway.  I know better, and my weight loss success has been based on healthy eating and moderation - not deprivation and diets.  Why I  decided to start a diet each week is based in not finishing slugging through the issues instead of letting them literally "eat" away at me. 

Getting started on some things has been challenging in the last months - but when I really reflected on the statement above, I realized that what I needed more than new distractions was to finish. 

Finish what?  Well, suffice it to say finish some unpleasant emotional business.  Finish taking on roles that make me unhappy.  Finish making excuses.  Finish whining.  Finish feeling bad.  Just finish...

So, this is not a week of a start, but rather a week of the finish.  I won't be finishing all the books in progress, but I will decide which ones to "finish" for now.  What I am committed to finishing above all else is the "stuff" that is getting in the way of my healthiness.  For it is only when you finish and get rid of that which is "weighing on you" that a real start can occur. 

Carpe Diem - and so it is...