How to Complete Things

A 7 Part Guide for 2024

Dear Friends,

Thank you all for all the support this year!

I will be sending you my own Christmas present on Boxing Day, my documentary “The Isolation Diaries”.

It will be available for a short window and only for my Substack subscribers. Thank you for supporting my journey.

For those who have seen it already by becoming a paid subscriber, you gave me the best Christmas present! You can see it through this link.

Since the film’s screening last weekend, I’ve felt full of thoughts about completing long term projects. Below is a little guide for anyone in the heart of that struggle.

Happy Christmas everyone,

With love, Jim

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HOW TO COMPLETE THINGS: A Guide for 2024

1. The Final Stretch: Embracing the Last 5%

All of us are struggling with projects.

Within that struggle, we consider giving up.

Why?

Because as we transform, our previous work no longer fits who we’re becoming.

The allure of the new is very powerful.

“That’s how I’ll get to where I want to go!”

So we ditch it and start again.

Yet evolution happens by finishing the level you’re on.

Not skipping it.

The end-level boss is not something outside yourself.

It is the pain of enduring the last push of anything.

The first 95%?

Easy.

The last 5%?

Torment.

That’s where you find out who you are.

As you set out, prepare not just for the first 95% but steel yourself for what you can’t plan: the mental toughness you need in that last 5%.

2. The Evolution of Self Through Perseverance