Completion
Finishers have reasonable plans and plenty of self-discipline.
Your commitment to action, remembering your Core Values, will produce results that build relationships and expand participation in good works. Make passionate plans, follow simple regular routines, work towards the fulfillment of milestones and visualize the achievement of goals. Success happens through the measurement of the progress and commitment to the completion of a planned step regardless of the length of each step.
Completion through Determination
Purposeful motivation is a powerful component of completion, but determination is what in-the-end gets the job done. Getting results from applying yourself again and again builds the confidence that completion is possible. A personal track record of development of a skill, for instance, increases hope that another skill could be acquired.
Completion through Measurement
Measurement should be more positive than negative. Measurement along the path and during smaller tasks shows progress over time. Focusing more on the progress than what’s left to do is a positive outlook. Impatience can make the completion time too hard to bear. Reviewing the completion of the last milestones support a positive view of the next step. Constant focus on what is lacking on the total project can be demoralizing. Planning measurement intervals and smaller milestones are helpful in preventing overall project overload especially at the beginning
Completion through Planning
Good planning sets reasonable expectations about timing and sequence of steps in the project. When frustrations and impatience gets out of hand going back to the plan may help to reset you emotions and believability that you can do this after all. The plan can help to focus on what’s next rather than everything that is not done yet. “I can do this part now” is a much better self-talk than “Oh my goodness, I’m never going to get this whole thing done”. You can’t know if you are realistically behind on a plan unless there are some time estimates set on each task of a milestone. Measurements along the way according to a plan make it possible to do minor adjustment to catchup or redirect your focus. Planning can work in steps to developer a more personal relationship. There may be stages and steps in a stage that you go through to deepen a relationship. Possibly moving from pleasant conversations, discovering common interest and activities, to sharing strengths, to sharing weakness, sharing emotion events, to help and support.
Completion through Rituals
Routines and rituals are often used interchangeable. To me, rituals seems to be more meaningful, more personal, and more impactful. Ritual are to remind us the deeper reasons for the activity. Routines are a sequence of actions followed in a fixed program. Routines may be used to review and take actions on plans. Routines are not much different that steps or actions on a plan except for they are more time-based and regular. You might have a daily routine, a weekly routine, a monthly routine, or even a before-you-go-to-sleep routine.
“The big difference between a ritual and a routine is not necessarily the action, but the attitude behind the action. To many, a routine is showing up every morning, eating breakfast, brushing teeth, taking a shower, getting dressed, and going to work. It is not a meaningful part of the day, but it needs to get done and so we do it. It’s viewed as a chore.
Rituals, on the other hand, are seen as a more meaningful practice. Often there is symbolism involved, and a sense of purpose. A big part of a ritual is one’s subjective experience of the activity. Though we often associate rituals with religion or spirituality, I believe we can transform any routine into a ritual, given the right attitude.”
–small habits, big change by Steven Handel, page 44
Rituals are more holistic that a physical action. Rituals can be mental, emotional, and physical. Ceremony may be looked at the way to ritualize and event or celebration. I think of a ritual as a personal ceremony where I honor and respect what I due in the time allotted. Rituals can be reduced or expand the process of the ritual as long it’s to improve holistic purpose. When I’m looking to add something important to my way of living and try not to go to the calendar first to see where I can fit this in. I try to contemplate if this is a new meaningful activity, what existing ritual could a reminder be placed in? Or can the whole activity be added to a ritual? Or can I make a ritual around this addition to my way of living.
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