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Reasons Unfinished Projects Can Easily Be Devastating
Do you pass the hallway of forgotten projects when you enter your house?
Maybe all the projects you leave unfinished are stuffed into a closet where none of your guests can judge you over them?
The point is, you tend to start a lot of things.
And, then leave them unfinished.
Whether you realize it or not, this habit could be hurting you in several ways.
It May Make You Anxious
If you find yourself constantly feeling anxious, it could be because of all the projects you are constantly leaving undone.
Even if you don't currently feel any anxiety, this doesn't mean you won't eventually have anxious feelings as a result of your incomplete projects.
It's not only that.
When feelings of anxiety go unresolved, they could lead to more serious issues such as depression.
Thus, it’s better to do whatever possible to avoid causing yourself so much stress.
You Will Have Issues With Frustration
Whether you realize it or not, leaving projects unfinished is a deep source of frustration in your life.
This frustration may not just be affecting your personal life. It could also affect your professional life. And cause you to lash out at coworkers and maybe even your boss.
If this sounds like you, it means your unfinished projects could actually be what is holding you back in your career.
You Won't Move Forward
Finishing what you start is an important part of creating change within your life. If you aren't finishing the things you are starting, you aren't changing.
If you aren't changing yourself, you are stagnant.
Without change, you can't move forward. You will set aside any goals or dreams you have for yourself, and you may never complete them.
It could also mean that you won't have a sense of accomplishment, which is another crucial aspect of helping propel yourself forward in life.
Conclusion
Although you may not think that not finishing what you've started is hurting you, the truth is, it probably is.
When you leave a project unfinished, it can cause anxiety and feelings of frustration to develop and fester.
Beyond just that, when you don't complete tasks, you remain stagnant in your life and deny yourself the growth and development you deserve.
It is time to stop setting tasks aside.
Start completing the things you start today!
Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"On mine arm shall they trust." Isaiah 51:5
In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on his God alone. When his vessel is on its beam-ends, and no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God and God alone! There is no getting at our God sometimes because of the multitude of our friends; but when a man is so poor, so friendless, so helpless that he has nowhere else to turn, he flies into his Father's arms, and is blessedly clasped therein! When he is burdened with troubles so pressing and so peculiar, that he cannot tell them to any but his God, he may be thankful for them; for he will learn more of his Lord then than at any other time. Oh, tempest-tossed believer, it is a happy trouble that drives thee to thy Father! Now that thou hast only thy God to trust to, see that thou puttest thy full confidence in him. Dishonour not thy Lord and Master by unworthy doubts and fears; but be strong in faith, giving glory to God. Show the world that thy God is worth ten thousand worlds to thee. Show rich men how rich thou art in thy poverty when the Lord God is thy helper. Show the strong man how strong thou art in thy weakness when underneath thee are the everlasting arms. Now is the time for feats of faith and valiant exploits. Be strong and very courageous, and the Lord thy God shall certainly, as surely as he built the heavens and the earth, glorify himself in thy weakness, and magnify his might in the midst of thy distress. The grandeur of the arch of heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a single visible column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything discernible by the carnal eye. May the Holy Spirit give you to rest in Jesus this closing day of the month.
Evening
"If we walk in the light, as he is in the light." 1 John 1:7
As he is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as he is whom we call "Our Father," of whom it is written, "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all?" Certainly, this is the model which is set before us, for the Saviour himself said, "Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect;" and although we may feel that we can never rival the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it, and never to be satisfied until we attain to it. The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michael Angelo, but still, if he did not have a noble beau ideal before his mind, he would only attain to something very mean and ordinary. But what is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light as God is in the light? We conceive it to import likeness, but not degree. We are as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as sincerely in the light, as honestly in the light, though we cannot be there in the same measure. I cannot dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence, but I can walk in the light of the sun; and so, though I cannot attain to that perfection of purity and truth which belongs to the Lord of hosts by nature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord always before me, and strive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, after conformity to his image. That famous old commentator, John Trapp, says, "We may be in the light as God is in the light for quality, but not for equality." We are to have the same light, and are as truly to have it and walk in it as God does, though, as for equality with God in his holiness and purity, that must be left until we cross the Jordan and enter into the perfection of the Most High. Mark that the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up with walking in the light.