Never Stop Until A Task Is Done

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. - JW von Goethe

If you work with servers, you should know never to multi-task a server or cancel applications as they are running, doing so would create Server Freeze, which is exactly as the name suggests, a frustrating condition that can make you want to rip out your hairs.

In life, we as individuals pursing a dream are like ‘servers’ in this aspect. We cant pull out in the middle of a project or try to multi-task a plethora of choices, because if we do, we experience the ‘Freeze.’

No work gets done, nothing gets completed, we are frustrated, the people relying on us get frustrated. Life is just a long conveyor belt of manufactured external crisis.  

Sometimes the simple thought of completing a daunting task can create a physiological sense of overload. But this is not a ‘freeze.’

What we are really feeling is immense creative tension. Our state of mind and body is in a truly energized state.

It now has to make one of two choices;

1. Do the Work: The tension is released as a flood of creativity. …. OR
2. Runaway: The tension is now anxiety. We run away from the work, we procrastinate and chide ourselves that we haven’t done it.

The point I am making is that we have to recognize the creative forces that have risen inside of us.

Once we consciously accept these creative forces and do the work, the creative energy rapidly finds the solutions for us, the natural strategies that we have inherited over centuries of evolution, to rapidly finish even the seemingly insurmountable tasks.

On the internet, you can find a lot of tips and tricks to get yourself to finish and complete tasks.

These are great, but the first part of your action should be to recognize that the tension you are feeling, is the tension of your mind and body’s creativity ready to be unleashed.

And you have two choices, ride the dragon, or run away from it and procrastinate.

Deciding never to quit, until a task is completed, is the right way to do things in life. Most times we do this when we are two hours away from task deadlines.

And tasks doesn’t not just mean ‘just work.’ It could mean a belief or a philosophy that governs your actions.

The writer James Clear gives away ninety percent of his work for free. And its not poor quality he gives away. Here is a person who has mastered internal creative strengths and sets his own deadlines, not driven by external forces, but by his own set of creative rules.

In a way, he has re-defined work as less about Most Important Tasks (MIT) but rather Most Important Values (MIV)

What we must do to succeed is to not base our decisions to complete tasks on external deadlines. We should base it on our innate abilities and values. Creative tension resides in all of us, and the person who masters it is truly the strongest over those whose creativity is only unleashed by external forces.

So sit down and don’t get up until the task is done.

If a task is once begun, Never leave it ’till it’s done. Be the labor great or small, Do it well or not at all. ~ a quote from Gods Little Devotional Book.