The Chronic Habit of Leaving Things Unfinished

I have a chronic habit of getting caught up in a whirlwind of ideas, getting overly passionate about those ideas, allowing my head to be swept up in that tornado that is excitement… and then come plummeting to the ground, face first into the gravel that is exhaustion.

(This image is a pretty good summary of where I'm at in life right now.)

In other words, I get caught up in an idea, but I rarely follow through with it.

Don’t misunderstand: if it’s to do with another person or a promise, that is my priority. That stuff is plastered onto my brain cells with the persistence of an obsessed fangirl pining for every 3-second update on a boy-band. What I’m addressing in this post is motivation for myself to do extra tasks, for myself.

You see, I’ve had a few attempts at blogging, starting websites, building something, beginning a Youtube channel, initiating a podcast, writing a novel, creating an app… and I’ll let you know, some of these things I barely even began planning for, let alone got them up and running. In fact, this is probably my 4th attempt at blogging. Who knows– maybe this time it’ll work out, maybe it won’t. That’s sort of the thrill of this.

It’s so easy to start things. What distinguishes us is how, and if, we finish. So this time, I want to properly make an attempt at creating life in this blog– whether life means readers, or the life and personality I give to unread posts. Whether this blog gets noticed or not is out of my hands, but it’ll be a fun, interesting project to work on.

I know I’m going to keep the ideas whizzing around in my head. It’s fun to imagine, fun to speculate, fun to wonder. But I’ll bet it’s more fun to actually implement those ideas. To finish things. To take a step back and nod, marvelling at your creation.

What about you?

Are you in the same position as me? If so, let's make our ideas count, and prove to ourselves that our ideas actually have weight, and actually bear the possibility to become a real, physical result that other people can lay their eyes on!

Seriously, get started.

(Side note: Please only proceed if the idea is one that won’t hurt people. For example, if your idea is to slap someone in the face, you may have to reconsider, so long as the target is not a total asshole.)

If you are the kind of person who knows exactly what you’re doing, and when, where and how, it’ll be a success, I'm pretty sure you're an alien. I’ll really have to sit down and have a chat with you to teach me your ways.