Chapter 17
All About Completion Thinking
In This Chapter
• Completions all around
• Allowing it to happen
• The choice you make
• Breakdowns and breakthroughs
 
You got a good sense of the effect of incompletions from the previous chapter, so in this chapter we are going to focus on how to achieve completions, everywhere, all the time!

Silent Self-Acknowledgment

A completion is not merely the accomplishment of a task. As used here, it also means mentally citing yourself for what you’ve gotten done. As I describe in my book Breathing Space: Living & Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society, those who have mastered completions give themselves quick, silent acknowledgment and then move on … “I did a particularly good job here, and it’s ...

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