DEAR FINISHER

Grab him by the balls and finish him!

Let's play a game.

Would you rather have 30% cooked meal, or not eat anything at all? Chances are the lot of us would rather go without the food, than eat the meal that has a potential to cause harm to our bodies because it is not well cooked. The trick is, the food wasn't finished.

Let's try again, shall we? Would you rather have an uncompleted project, say, an uncompleted building for many years, or have a bare land where you can farm in and even rent for open events? Okay, the choice here is very obvious, isn't it?

One last one. Would you rather have a friend whose heart isn't genuine, people called 'half-baked' friends and is only there for the good times, or you'd rather not have that friend at all? I speak for myself when I say I'd pick being alone to having a friend I cannot lean on.

Then why, why don't we spend our hearts in what we find to do? Putting your hands on a plough and not committing your strength is as good as not putting your hands on it in the first place. I mean, what's the point? Why engage in something you won't see through? This is not the behaviour of successful people.

Engaging in something you won’t see through is not the behaviour of successful people.

If there's one motto by which I have lived my life, and will continue to, it is to do whatever I find to do with all my strength and with all my might. Fully committed to seeing whatever project it is either to complete failure (where we have to start again if need be), or to breakthrough.

Not committing yourself; being half-hearted will do absolutely nobody any good; not the project, not the people depending on you for your own part of the project, and not you. Being half-hearted in anything is a worse devil than not even showing up or agreeing to do it in the first place.

Being half-hearted in anything is a worse devil than not even showing up or agreeing to do it in the first place.

You know what stands people out? It's not ability, I've discovered. If you think because you don't have the ability, you won't stand out, so why bother, then you have absolutely lost out from the beginning.

What stands people out is their attitude and willingness to apply themselves. To show up and press in with all their ability. To commit to something, with all their heart, all their might and all their strength. To not only finish a project, but finish their diligence in that project.

Don't you want to be rid of the maybes, the regret and guilt that comes with what you know could have happened if you had applied yourself and done the venture with all your heart?

If you finish something, in your heart and mind, however that thing turns out, your heart will be full. You will have learned the extent to your abilities, know what you have to learn, and if you want to go again.

Earlier, I said you are not helping the project, because you are taking up space. If you don't plan to do a project with all your might, don't join it in the first place.

That way, someone who is ready to put their all in it will be given the opportunity, and that project will be better off.

This project could be a job, a relationship, a business, a course, anything that represents a project to you.

Don't even engage in it if you will not finish it! The project suffers, because doing it half-heartedly will limit it from reaching its full potential; all that it could be in the hands of someone who'd care for it and give everything to it!

Don’t engage in it if you don’t plan to see it through. It is a disservice to the project, the people, and you.

From the perspective of people that'd be leaning on you, you'd never be trusted anymore.

They will always remember you as the weak link, or someone who made a project fail, or someone who could have done more, or someone who was drawing them back with his attitude to work.

And you know what happens when you can't be vouched for or recommended by people you have worked with in the past? Impoverishment! Poverty! Lack! Hopelessness. It's not rocket science, my Gee.

The third person who will suffer is you. You are not doing yourself good if you aren't applying yourself and finishing what you started.

You are destroying your reputation as someone who can do it, because even though you can do it, your attitude is not helping matters.

You are also not pushing yourself to your limits, because you aren't getting anywhere near your limits if you aren't even exerting your energy, and by this, you pass up the opportunity to grow.

You know how people grow? It is when they stretch themselves; mentally and physically. It applies to your brain, your muscles, your ability to work. And in case you haven't already figured that out, you only stretch yourself by using up all your might. By applying yourself totally!

People grow when they stretch themselves; mentally and physically.

This is one thing I believe you have in your hands. To decide that whatever your hands find to do, whatever is committed to your hands, you will do it as good as you know how to do it. When you apply force to a rubber, it stretches and occupies more ground; when you don't, it stays the size that it is. You are that rubber.

On a final note, do you know the beautiful thing? You will never find yourself in a project that you can't deliver in. If you find yourself in that project, it means you have the ability to see it through. Again, seeing it through can mean failing, over and over again, until breakthrough in it, or in something else.

For this reason, dear finisher, as you go through this week, be prepared to grab the project by the balls, with all your might, and finish him!

To your growth,

Your Coach,

Abiola Okunsanya,

Handzinspired.