Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Finishing Well

Hello World Changers,

After watching the tennis last night, Federer vs. Nadal and then watching the American Super Bowl 43 today I am reminded about how important it is to finish well.  We are not remembered for how we start things but how we finish them.  Growing up, one of the lessons that I had to keep learning was to become a good finisher.  I remember one of my former employers once telling me that how I finish one thing will determine how I start the next and that will carry on.  That really hit me hard because at times I had not been a very good finisher.  The implications of not finishing something and that affecting how I started the next really impacted me and I could look back and see how that was very true.  Because of my personality I love to start things and hate to finish them, I know this about myself and try my hardest each time no matter how much I want to quit to finish well.  How are you at finishing?

Louis L'Amour
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

David Lloyd George
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Richard Bach
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

John Wooden
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.