Create a project sheet that records your targets and your current status. Specify your KPIs that you want to achieve. If your goal is to lose weight, your KPIs will be your weight, your fat percentage, and perhaps your performance during your exercise sessions. Hi Celes, I am an enthusiastic starter and do all things necessary to make any endeavor successful such as efficient planning, detailing, and execution focus. Finish written by Jon Acuff and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Business & Economics categories. If you have been taking action and working on your goals, that’s a big achievement and you should be proud of yourself! Taking action is your first step to realize your goals. The second thing is to have a culture of honesty. You want a culture where people can raise their hand in a meeting in front of people and go, “Hey, I think our product’s amazing and I think we’re going to grow, but where did that number come from?” They should be able to say that without consequences. I’ve worked with companies where the leader sets the wrong size goal and everyone claps in the boardroom, but it does damage to the team because you waste time and energy.

Taking short breaks every hour for 5 to 10 minutes is recommended, instead of taking chunks of 20-minute breaks every two hours. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1, "Causes", begins with a provocative chapter entitled "The Epidemic of Unfinished Everything and Its Consequences." Chapter 2 explores 21 behaviors, beliefs, and bad habits that might be at the root of not finishing. The remaining chapters in this part explore specific causes of unfinished tasks including "Having Too Much to Do at Once", "Dealing with Procrastination", and "Having an Unrealistic or No Deadline".

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The good news is it doesn’t have to be your future reality. By making small tweaks to your every day, you’ll be able to shift your outcomes. Of course, don’t start dropping every single thing you’re doing now just because you lose interest. It’s a benefits vs. costs equation. If it’s almost done (99% completion), and the benefits from pushing through that final 1% far outweigh the costs, then go ahead and get it done. It’s a judgment call that you make from weighing out the benefits and costs. Apply the Tips I adopt the drop-and-go approach a lot with my work. Of the over 400 articles on my blog Personal Excellence, there are about 100 half-written articles that have not seen the light of the day (yet). Some of them are 10% complete, some are 30% complete, and some are about half done.