Necessary endings by cloud1/17/2024 ![]() This is the threefold formula for doing well in almost every arena of life. (3) If it’s clear that something is already dead, it is pruned. (2) If an endeavor is sick and is not going to get well, it is pruned. (1) If an initiative is siphoning off resources that could go to something with more promise, it is pruned. …executing the three types of necessary endings described above is what characterizes people who get results. Rel: Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualization Psychology (A. In your business and perhaps your life, the tomorrow that you desire and envision may never come to pass if you do not end some things you are doing today. As a result, we stay stuck in what should now be in our past.Īlso by Henry Cloud (and highly recommended): BoundariesĪ few more quotes from the book, and some related reading (linked): So we do not clearly see the need to end something, or we maintain false hope, or we just are not able to do it. We are not prepared to go where we need to go. This is the first, primary, foundational, most important skill of productivity. That’s good.īut first learn how to see what needs to end and end it. To be more productive, sure, learn how to label and organize and use a to-do list and stuff. A ratio of “TOO MANY OBLIGATIONS” to “TOO LITTLE ENERGY AND TIME.” You have more to do than you can do, you commit, you start too many projects, you end up stuck in indecision because you don’t know what should get your attention first, and the indecision makes you frustrated and depressed, which feeds your self-doubt and feelings of inability, and then you resist doing anything, and then hours and days go by and the obligations continue to pile up and you want to hide in a corner and cry. What kills productivity most isn’t a lack of resources or lack of skills or procrastination or disorganization. Otherwise, average sets in… What Really Kills Productivity That’s the trickiest part, when there are many things that appeal to you and you have to choose between them.Īll of your precious resources-time, energy, talent, passion, money-should only go to the buds of your life or your business that are the best, are fixable, and are indispensable. And yes, sometimes it isn’t a “Love This” versus a “Hate That” pile. Things that you want to put your time and energy and creativity into. It goes nowhere fast.Įnding things that need to end allows you to focus and make progress on things that matter more to you. Instead of a to-do list, they have a to-do pile. They create more than they can focus on and feed, they are attached to every idea as if they were all equal, and they try to keep them all alive. This is especially tough for some creative people, causing them a lack of focus. So you always will have to choose between good and best. Some of those activities may be good, but they are taking up resources that your best ones need. ![]() …both businesses and individuals will begin, gather, and have more activities than they can reasonably sustain. When you see that something needs to end, you have the power to end it. ![]() ![]() Those endings can be drawn-out, messy, and painful. Life has a way of ending things for us, if we’re not willing to end them ourselves. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them. And letting things end, or, at times, decisively ending them, is necessary if you want to be free to grow. Growth is what life is all about, in my opinion. But without the ability to do endings well, we flounder, stay stuck, and fail to reach our goals and dreams. Endings are the reason you are not married to your prom date nor still working in your first job. Refraining, giving up, throwing away, tearing down, hating what we once cherished-all are necessary. Sometimes it is a relationship or a career path.īeing alive requires that we sometimes kill off things in which we were once invested, uproot what we previously nurtured, and tear down what we built for an earlier time. Sometimes the thing that needs to end is a habit or a project. (I’d make the other one Mastery by Robert Greene.) If you were only going to read two books to improve your productivity and general quality of life, I’d make this one of them. Amazon | Goodreads | Author bio | Author site ![]()
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