Finish What You Start: The Art of Following Through, Taking Action, Executing, & Self-Discipline (Live a Disciplined Life Book 2)

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It's a decent reference on productivity tips, which means it serves its primary purpose, but it isn't sufficiently original, strongly founded, or personally resonant for this to warrant full marks. If you don’t follow through, then you don’t learn all that you have to do and you don’t learn anything about yourself except that you’re lazy, afraid, or a failure. Practical tactics to grow your willpower, stop procrastination, focus like a laser, and achieve whatever you set your mind to . It requires you to develop a resilient mindset, retain focus, and not give in to distractions easily. But at the first sign of hardship, fatigue, boredom, or busyness, we abandon it all too easily, and it sits in our garage (mental, figurative, or literal) for the rest of eternity.

Focus — Hollins emphasizes that focus plays a vital role in directing your efforts towards accomplishing your goals and helps you devise effective strategies to attain them.

By maintaining a concentrated and attentive mindset, you can align your actions and thoughts in a way that propels you closer to your desired outcomes. It doesn't necessarily introduce completely new ideas if you've read other books on good habit and focus, but is definitely a very good reminder of what it boils down to when we procrastinate.

When it comes to a topic such as Following through, I think everyone needs to be reminded of the beginning steps. False hope syndrome occurs when you think that you can do everything on your to-do list and reach your dreams in a short amount of time. We don’t finish on this book until the end of June, but there was no way I was going to read this for two more months.It’s the ability to control yourself so that you retain focus on what needs to be done, despite the temptations and distractions you may encounter. Following through is related to focus, self-discipline, action, and persistence, but it is not synonymous to any of them. Assigning value and remembering how each thing you do ties into your main goal is very important because it helps you feel that you are doing well just by working. Acknowledges that they occur ‘because we are unconsciously protecting ourselves’ but does not give us a means to contend with our fears.

All in all, not groundbreaking by any means, but it's helpful and might be what you need if you struggle with finishing what you start. Make a list of your limitations and requirements with clear statement on what you cannot and must do. Good time management involves the ability to schedule tasks and the ability to recognize which tasks are best done when.These are manageable, realistic and inventive ways to get my work done, given my own personal quirks. The easy way to find these is to answer a set of questions that directly asks things such as how am I going to benefit from this and how does my life stand to improve from this?