Finish What You Start Flashcards
What are the psychological roadblocks to following through?
- Laziness and lack of self discipline
- fear of judgment, rejection and failure
- perfectionism out of insecurity
- lack of self awareness
What four parts is follow through composed of?
- Focus 2. Self-Discipline 3. Action 4. Persistence
What inhibiting tactics do we play against ourself without even knowing it?
- Setting bad goals 2. Procrastination 3. Saying “Yes” to temptations 4. Poor Time Management
What are projects that I have not followed through with?
- Learn to play guitar
- Learn to sing
- Learn the game
- Learn to code
- Learn to memorize cards, names-faces, languages
- Learn marketing, business and sales
- Learn Chinese
- Learn Mental Math
- Learn bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, protein engineering
- Apply marketing, sales, business to DollarLitterClub
- Apply sales and software design to Vozillo
- Get out of debt - paying back Jonathan, Dr. Schumer, Melanie, Kenneth, student loans, credit cards
- Buy desired items - Apple Watch, apartment, sports car, designer clothes, Tom Ford Glasses
What are the Finisher Rules?
- Three things Max Daily 2. Make Rules For Yourself 3. It’s Just “10 minutes…” 4. Imagine yourself 10 minutes, 10 days, 10 months, 10 years from now
What are Finisher Mindsets?
- Believe it’s all worth it 2. Appreciate discomfort 3. Act, reflect, correct, Act 4. De-stress religiously
How does a Finisher kill procrastination?
- Add immediate pleasure to long term gratification tasks 2. Break to smallest subunit, start small 3. consider what might go wrong and actively fight that reality
What are the Pitfalls to follow through?
- Overestimating how fast change happens 2. Wasted time gathering information 3. Worry, rumination and fears that take from present moment 4. Not being true to yourself, your ability to grow, the speed or time you need to finish
What is the key to Finishing any project you start?
- Create a system! - Do Not Do list, environment, scoreboard 2. Daily scoreboard 3. End Reward 4. Identify barriers + create rules 5. Make wasting time a high transaction cost
What is in the Finishers Toolkit?
- Become undistracted - eliminate phone, go in nature, this increases willpower 2. Make default options productivity 3. Eliminate multi-tasking or attention shifting 4. Bundle tasks together, batching to eliminate attention lag 5. Do Not Do List on the wall 6. Act after 40% confidence, not more than 70% confidence 7. Do nothing - releases alpha waves
What is on my DO NOT DO list?
DO NOT DO between 9am - 1:30p:
Open / scroll on Instagram
Open / swipe on Tinder, Bumble
Open LINE, Messenger or WhatsApp Engage in marijuana smoke
Change your plan last minute!
Engage with negative self talk!
Think about getting older!
DO NOT DO 8p - 1:30a:
Stay up past 11:30p
Open / scroll on Instagram
Open / swipe on Tinder, Bumble
Watch youtube
Open LINE, Messenger or WhatsApp
Change your plan last minute!
Engage with negative self talk!
Think about getting older!
Engage in marijuana smoke
What is focus?
Focus is continuous with self-discipline.
If you’re focused on what you need to do, self-discipline will naturally follow. If you’re self-disciplined, it will be easier to focus on what needs to be done and avoid distractions.
What is self-discipline?
Self discipline is what enables you to get your head down and work when you need to, even if you don’t want to. 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. The power to regulate your own thoughts, feelings and actions towards end that are meaningful to you.
What is action?
The visible aspect of following through, the one’s that’s actually observed, measured and evaluated against your goals. Action transmutes your goals and plans from abstract goals into observed, measured facts!
What is persistence?
Persistence is firmly sticking to something for a prolonged period of time, even as you encounter things that ry to unstick you. It’s the tendency to adhere to a course of action even in the face of obstacles. It’s not enough to start, you must stick with it until it’s done. Following through is having enough heart to keep pushing through in the face of obstacles, distractions and setbacks. Many worthwhile goals are a marathon not a sprint.
What are inhibiting tactics?
Our schemes for misusing time and effort, with the end result of being held back from following through. We sabatoge ourselves by setting bad goals, procrastination, poor time management, indulging in temptations and distractions.
Where am I most weak in finishing what I start?
Focus - I become mentally distracted by fear of failure, an attitude of I cannot do it, fears I’m not talented or smart enough. Lack of strategy for keeping focused. I start to worry and get taken by fears of other projects not being completed which changes my focus.
Discipline - I give into distractions. I give into temporary pleasure when thing are difficult like marijuana.
Time Management - I don’t know how to manage my time well. I split my time into many projects and become distracted by working on too many projects at one time out of fear that they won’t get finished! I then give each one only a small piece of time, eventually, the project makes little progress only and then gets deprioritized with new projects and other activities that end up eating up all my time away.
Persistence - I am afraid to finish. I have never finished something large that was meaningful to me. I get unstuck easily and give in to fears, worry and immediate pleasures that erode my discipline Eventually I feel overwhelmed and lose persistence on a single goal, shifting to new goals constantly.
What exactly is finishing what you start?
Finish what you start = Making your INTENTION REALITY.
Finishing what you start is breaking through the common loop of starting then giving up and taking hold of your LIFE and IT’S MANIFESTATIONS.
What is a common error?
Saying we’ll do something, starting on a lucky weekend. But at the first sign of hardship, fatigue, boredom, or busyness, we abandon it easily and it sits in our mental garage for the rest of eternity! Intention DOESN’T become REALITY!
What problems does this book aim to solve?
How we can live with supreme discomfort while keeping our attention on a single task. How we can overcome our own worst instincts to finish difficult enduring projects.
What is following through?
A composite of focus, self discipline, action and persistence.
Following through is an intention that’s been translated into action!
What is action?
Why don’t we follow through?
We often couldn’t find the focus, self-discipline, action or persistence needed to get the job done.
Sometimes we go into battle with our focus or our self-discipline.
Other times we lack action or persistence.
Goals take hard work, sometimes we arrive to find difficulty and get scared off the field.
What is setting bad goals?
When our goals are too high or unrealistic for us to believe we can reach, we find ourselves looking up at an impossible ladder.
Since we believe the goal is impossible anyways, whether we believe we follow through or not makes no difference.
