Finish What You Start: The Art of Following Through, Taking Action, Executing, & Self-Discipline (Live a Disciplined Life Book 2)

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Meh, more of a primer course for people with poorly developed organisational skills or understanding of what it takes to be productive. Action — The author underscores the significance of taking action and placing a high priority on the actual execution of tasks. If you're just starting out on a quest to find out why you struggle to get anywhere, this is a good place to start.

It takes a cognitive effort to follow through on something, especially when you hit discouraging obstacles. The end of the chapter has a summary that was helpful if you're like me and started zoning out towards the end of each one, which I appreciated.

The present self wants rewards that pay out now, which in turn often hurt your chances to get your future self its long-term rewards. Persistence us firmly sticking to something for a prolonged period of time, even as we encounter things that try to unstick you. These are manageable, realistic and inventive ways to get my work done, given my own personal quirks. I didn't really connect with the examples, the characters used in the thought experiments clearly have different ambitions in life and mindsets than I have.

Journey as all the tools that you would require to take you through these few steps of developing your own system of success. False hope syndrome occurs when you think that you can do everything on your to-do list and reach your dreams in a short amount of time. Every chapter follows the same pattern and that really helps the reader understand what is it that author whats the reader to understand.

As a list of practical tips and ideas for beating procrastination and following through on your plans, it's a good book to have. I started the book not because I'm lazy and have some major problems with following through, but because I wanted to make the process of finalizing my project more efficient by consciously applying the advices in the book.

It's a really short book so it shouldn't have taken me this long - once I'd gotten started, I finished it in two days (from the night of May 22nd to the afternoon of the 23rd) - but life got in the way and I pushed it to the backburner.

Having the capacity and potential to see projects through till the end or completion holds tremendous significance.