Between you and me, I’m pretty sure every single person who has joined Half-Finished to Done, LIVE has thought this. 

I never get offended when people say “I don’t think this will work for me,” because I know that there’s something else going on here. 

The thought “I don’t trust myself to follow through.” 

You might have convinced yourself that this won’t stick or that you’ve tried something just like this before, but I’m going to ask you to play in a world where the following is true:

Maybe this is different. 

Maybe this will help me get to the root cause of my half-finished projects. (Not just treat the symptoms.)

Maybe I’m ready.

Maybe I can learn to trust myself again.

If that could be true, would you take the leap?

Here’s what I suspect you’ve tried: Beating yourself up, telling yourself to “just do it,” willpowering and white-knuckling, and getting stuck in the same self-fulfilling cycle. The dang vortex of half-finished projects, as I not-so-fondly like to call it.

Here’s the new way: Understand exactly why you haven’t been finishing projects, and understand the exact inputs needed for a finished product. 

Here’s a quick preview: Generating productive thoughts and productive feelings, processing unpleasant feelings (instead of resisting them), planning ahead, taking massive action, anticipating obstacles, and understanding your wins so that you can replicate and amplify them. 

If you’ve never felt the pain, guilt, shame, disappointment, and embarrassment of half-finished projects hanging over your head, this program might not be for you. But those might be feelings that you’re intimately familiar with. 

If so: I want you to pause and zoom five years into the future. Think of all of the time, energy, money, and opportunities that you leave on the table in the next five years by not solving this problem. 

Here’s how I like to think about it: If you could improve every single project—in your business, home, health, and hobbies—by just 1%, would it be worth it? 

Only you’ll know if there’s a big enough opportunity cost to make it worth solving for you. 

(For what it’s worth, when I think of it this way, I laugh with delight at what a no-brainer this program is, for the right person.)

Isn’t it funny how our brains block us from solutions and keep us stuck, because we’re worried that we’ll learn we could have solved the problem earlier? 

Here’s the great news: Part of this process is making peace with your Past Self. We won’t be digging or analyzing your past—just accepting it, dropping resistance, selling you on the idea that it all happened like it was supposed to, and then moving on: Into the land of finished projects. 

If you know in your heart that it’s not the right time for you to learn these skills, I will never disagree with you. I’ll send you on your merry way and hope to see you in the future  

But if you’re looking for me to convince you, here we go: For many people, there has literally never been a better time for this work. I joke with my clients that it’s like the universe told us all to go to our rooms and think about what we’ve done. 

Many people are completely surrounded by all of their vices, triggers, and distractions right now—food, alcohol, social media, the news, their spouse, their kids—so their distraction problem has “reached a fever pitch,” in the words of one of my clients.

Is that you? Then you might find energy in this sentiment from many of clients: If they can master these skills in the midst of a global pandemic, with heightened racial tensions, while homeschooling their kids, they can’t even imagine how much they’ll be able to create and do once we enter the “new normal.” 

This sentence will likely irk some people, but I’ll say it any way—you get to choose how you come out of these unprecedented times. What will you choose?