Chapter 16
Incompletions and Their Hazards
In This Chapter
• Undone is no fun
• Incompletions impact individuals
• The need for neat endings
• Self-acknowledgment is vital
A powerful way to avoid succumbing to the onslaught of too much competition for your time and attention, and a good way to stay focused, perpetually, is by seeking completions. As I have alluded to in the previous chapters, “completion thinking” is one of the most fundamental ways to continually get things done despite distractions.
Fortunately, you are already a master of many aspects of completions. When you awake each morning, you have completed sleep for the previous night. When you turn in a big report at work, and you know it’s ready, that is a completion. If you get nothing ...
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