Writing Goal – Finishing Things

I have set myself a big writing goal in a relatively short space of time. I like my reasons for doing it. I have adjusted my life/got my partner on board ect. I really want to push what is possible for myself or what I believe is possible of myself in this short window of time.

Part of it is redrafting and finding an ending I’m happy with of a thing I’ve been writing. I’m still struggling with the limiting belief that ‘I struggle to finish things’. I took messy imperfect action and wrote to the original ending I had in mind but I don’t like it. It feels a bit like I’ve tried to force it in a direction it doesn’t want to go in. So technically I did finish it just not to the standard I’d like it to be.

My brain keeps telling me that the problem is that I have gone about it in the wrong way. That I should have come up with the ending before I started. I know this isn’t true and it’s just one way of working. There is no right way of doing something. But this desire to abandon it because I’ve done it the ‘wrong’ way/made a mess keeps coming up and I think is blocking me.

 

Answer:

 

What great awareness you have here! Go you!

Let’s get curious about the desire to abandon it. What would happen if you were to do that? How would it serve you? What would it deny you? Notice what your brain is telling you about why that choice is the right one and question it. In what ways is having this urge not a problem? This is how we push our brains into that uncomfortable zone of growth – asking and answering these kinds of questions – and it shows us what is possible for us as well.

What you’re doing is so exciting! Keep going!!