Complete. Finish. Finalize. End.  These are all words that tend to elude me, I must confess. I have so many goals and projects started. I have song lyrics half written, book ideas outlined and some books even almost finished. Yet I always seem to move on too soon, leaving a trail of almost – almost finished, almost reached, almost found. Ah, I’m in danger of being among the many who get stopped alongside the road, tired and empty. Never realizing the purpose of the journey. Never coming to know where that road would lead. The road is littered with half-lived lives and unfinished dreams.

This week I was reading about the power of completing projects and getting closure on issues of the past so we can fully embrace the present and open the future.* When we finish those “incompletes” hanging over our head, it opens space for something new. It frees us from clutter that absorbs our energy. I know it’s true. I’ve experienced it! Throughout the 70s I had written many songs, but never shared them. Then in the 2000’s I felt a strong need to do something with them, so a couple of musician friends helped me put them on a CD. As soon as we started the recording project, new songs started coming to me. They just showed up spontaneously, easily. I saw how that once I brought closure to past unfinished works, there was room for new ones to manifest.

I think it must be time for a little of that now. I need more space to attend to the projects calling me now. It’s time to finish a few old things. It’s time to dump a few – those that I know I really am not going to do, or maybe their time has passed. As long as I keep them in my mind as something I should do, without making a decision to let them go, they’re taking up valuable energy and attention away from what is more important and pressing for me.

I’m looking forward to this decluttering process, this completion process. I can feel my energy rising already at just the thought of it! 

*The Success Principles, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Jack Canfield.