…my temporary assignment.

Finishing is one of the most visible attributes you have. An ability that can be quickly discerned by most from the outside looking in. 

But to get there, you need to take matters into your own hands, from within. The inside out. You see, finishing is all about what you make happen on the inside first. It starts with taking stock of yourself. 

Honestly identifying what you do abundantly well – and – what begs out for work. For it makes no sense to focus only on what you have mastered at the expense of everything else. To do so, will leave you unbalanced. With excess, unused capacity. Unfinished. 

So turn your attention towards the areas that need work. That beckon for help. Examining the ones that have never seemed to flourish. Maximizing their capacity is the key to achievement and success. 

So make yourself a promise.   Take an oath. That you will commit yourself to living up to all of your highest intentions – in all areas. That through sustained and unrelenting action you will come to personify your intentions. 

Through that level of commitment, you will be able to find that ability to finish. For once you finish all the things that are already started from within, then, everything you start from without will begin to fall into place. 

Finishing will then become your second nature. 

And you can then maximize your capacity.

“…The human Will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless Soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.” 

James Allen 

You will be what it is that you will to be. Though walls of granite intervene.

Thoughts lead to choices, which in turn are all consummated by your actions. All of which create a pattern and the path for your life. 

What you will to be. Though walls of granite intervene.

So you can will yourself to “Ok”. 

“Average.” 

Find a way to get comfortable with mediocrity. To just get by. And then convince your self-inflicted wounded spirit with a fib. That it just wasn’t in the cards. That things somehow did not work out for you. 

As if “things” even owe you something. 

Or, you can will yourself to become something else. 

Extraordinary. 

Testing the limits of your potential. Maximizing your capacity. Happening to things. And just living full-out. A force of will yet unseen. 

Being all that you will to be.  

Hewing a way to any goal. 

“Though walls of granite intervene.”

“The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.”

Mark Twain 

That is, actively enduring the process of fully living within a commitment. 

Enduring.

An active and trusting pursuit  of  something that is true, necessary and ultimately – permanent. Enduring is and can never be spur of the moment.  Enduring is making a complete, all in  investment without any guarantee of the outcome.    

This takes industry in that you need to work at things. Always and in all ways. Not just with your limbs – but with your mind, your spirit and your soul. It takes application in that you need to use, employ and share  the gifts you have been given to the fullest extent. Not in fits and starts – but again – always and in all ways. 

As Mr. Twain asserts, it takes a brave and determined spirit to venture forth in this manner. It is never for the faint of heart. There can be no timidity when it comes to perseverance and seeing all things through. For that is when things evolve to  become endurance. 

You may consider it a miracle when the destination is finally within sight and your  grasp. 

But it was always that you that had the power to get there, all along.  

Endurance seems to be matched to the physical side of things, centered to what is within your core.  From a strength perspective. 

And yet,  endurance  is truly all about what you possess from within that enables you to elevate yourself. 

And become all you were meant to be.

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” 

— John Lubbock 

It could be said that an optimist sees the opportunity and the pessimist only the adversity. 

Mindset ? Attitude? Perhaps, to some extent. 

But it still and always will boil down to the choices one makes. 

A different take on “what you see is what you get”. You can choose to see the challenges that lay before you through one set of eyes. Seeing only work. Time. Anxiety. Discomfort. Things that have to be overcome. 

Or you can choose to see them as opportunities for effort. Commitment. Faith. Perseverance. Resources for the future. The valuable qualities you can obtain, practice and then work to perfect. 

It will always come down to vision. 

You can only look for – what you choose to see. 

“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.” 

― Zig Ziglar 

Close your eyes and visualize your individual performance this week. Picture everything about each  day;  as it unfolded, your role in it, how you “saw” yourself perform. 

Then picture the outcome. 

Make exercising this kind of vision intentional. A practice that is meant to create “deja vu”.   Placing yourself vividly within the event even before it all  played out. 

By envisioning your future performance, you  establish an indelible image; a benchmark of sorts. 

By creating that pre-event expectation level and performance, you will help yourself stay “on script”. The reality of your effort and execution will rise to the level of that vision you hold of yourself. 

What you picture for yourself affirms who “you” are now – and – foretells what you can choose to become. You can control the clarity and the image. And “how you see yourself” will touch every aspect of your life. 

You are truly the person you choose to “see”. 

The one that ultimately has to perform, achieve and succeed within the vision you created.

So you can truly see yourself.