Don’t Leave Things Hanging
Why never finishing will leave you a worse person and worse off.
Being indecisive and/or wracking up heaps of unfinished work are two things that can send you into a tailspin. On this note—and on the occasion of going on summer vacation—I want to share two scenarios, one every-day, and one for those of you doing creative work.
There are real and bad consequences by leaving things hanging; undone, unfinished. And it’s something we somehow tend to do a lot, and somehow it’s become accepted. I’m not taking it anymore! Yet I’m as culpable as everyone else once in a while.
Emails never get replied to. Washing isn’t done and clothes stack up. Projects never materialize. The examples are endless, from the mundane to the very private expectations we have on ourselves.
Let me start with a very simple, real scenario to set the scene.
The non-reply; countered by decisiveness
I recently emailed a new colleague about (what should have been) a routine matter—vacation coming up for pretty much the entire country adding further tension to my communicative…
