All projects have steps. Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, brain surgery, and creating a blog post like this. I am done with is introduction, but not finished with the post.
Too often I attempt to finish projects completely rather than get parts of the project done. As a kid I remember being told to “finish what’s on your plate”, so for hours I would sit there crying over the three lima beans I just didn’t want to eat. I still don’t like Lima beans and learned a bad lesson that I might be putting on my kids. I was taught to finish something to another person’s expectations rather than appreciate all that I’ve done and be finished when I met my expectations. When I try to finish things towards other people’s expectations I lose focus, cry over Lima beans, and sometimes just give up. This leave me thinking I am a failure for not finishing to someone else’s expectations, when I reality I should be proud of all the things that I got done and realize that my finished can be enough.
The improvement, from done to finished, is to set my own expectations of what finished is and create the steps that I believe are necessary to get things done. I feel like I’ve gotten enough steps done in this blog post. I’m tired, my head hurts, so I am now finished.
Hello, I am Shelton. 