Monday 1 February 2016

Having a Finisher's Mentality: Start Good, Finish Well


How many of you like me have stuffs you have started and they have been in comatose because of lack of will-power to finish, or maybe fear, laziness, lack of finances or for whatever reason you are not able to finish it yet?

A lot of times, many of us start out things we never finish for many inexcusable and sometimes tenable reasons; but there's never enough reason to abort any good thing you have started. .
Our Prayer card for today is very instructive! One of the best advice Jesus gave to his disciples whilst He was on earth. Luke 14: 28-29
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enoughto finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’?”

Imagine if Jesus did not finish the assignment He came into this world to do. What if HE had succumbed to the temptations the devil brought His way? Where would we be today? No wonder the bible says HE is the Author and FINISHER of our Faith. Imagine if God our Father started out on the work of creation and He made the firmaments but He didn’t make the lights. Imagine if He made the fish before making the waters. Imagine if He had made man before making all other things. He embarked on the creation project in a very methodological way and He finished it. Whose children are we then if we never get to conclude things we start?

Ecc 7: 8 says Finishing is better than starting….(NLT). What are the things you need to finish up on?
Finish up Reading your Bible?
Finish drawing up your budget?
Finish the diet plan you started?
Finish the distance-learning course you embarked on?
Finish learning that skill you set out to do?
Finish the financial makeover you started?
Here are 7 things that will help You and I Finish well going forward!
1. FEAR: Ditch fear, embrace courage. For everything you ever had the nerves to start, you have the guts to finish
2. FEELINGS: If you go by your feelings, then you will only make progress when you feel high or happy. Whether you feel like it or not, push yourself a little further and farther; you are almost there!
3. FUTURE: See the big picture. Someone once said “you can’t feature in a future you can’t picture”. How does botching this project affect the future? Is this a Must do for some other things to fall into place?
4. FRIEND: In the multitude of counsel there is safety. How about having someone you can truly be accountable for in order to finish up on the assignment. There’s always a friend who would stick close to you and cheer you to completion!
5. FUN: Consider the fun and reward you’d get when you finish up. Imagine having to start making money from attending the next liquid soap making class! Imagine getting to win an all-sponsored trip overseas for being one of the best staff at work?
6. FINANCE: How does this project/ affect my finances? What does this delay spell out for my bottom-line? Positive or negative? Only you can answer that. I recently shared on how delaying some pound-denominated project I haven’t finished is costing me so much more in the light of the current exchange rates....
Just because I delayed!
7. FAITH: Have faith you will succeed. Fight the good fight like the people in Hebrews 11 did. In spite of all, you too can make it and succeed!
Remember: If you could conceive it, then you have ALL its takes to achieve it. May you be an author and finisher of good things!
I wish you a Terrific and not a Febrific( Feverish) February!
I love you


The Pen.

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