The Art of Completion

I’m currently sitting in a cozy, Christmas-scented café in a small town, enjoying my morning coffee, and I feel a sense of lightness. It’s the lightness of completion. Over the past week, I’ve finalized three notarial transactions that have been long-awaited conclusions for me, performed at a singing concert marking the end of a learning process, and realized that respect also means letting go of old thoughts and feelings. Lightness feels good!

I believe you know the feeling when something keeps tapping in the back of your mind, reminding you that it wants to get done. (Mmmmh, I think far too many of us have too many of those things.) They weigh us down, create heaviness, and perhaps even sense of guilt. By their very nature, they consume your personal power—you’ve decided to start a new thing (even if only in thought), and now you need to act. But for whatever reason—lack of information, time, money, or other resources, laziness, reluctance, or a host of excuses—you don’t. And so, it hangs there, in the back of your mind, slowly draining your power. Procrastination exhausts and weakens. Very logical, isn’t it? On the other hand—if you haven’t noticed this yet, try observing during your next action—when you take steps toward completion or have just finished something, you regain personal power. Yes, your body releases feel-good hormones when you accomplish something, making you feel good, and if you tune in more subtly and deeply, you’ll sense something more, something that makes you more capable and stronger.

Nooooo! I’m not trying to urge you to finish all your unfinished tasks before the end of the year. Haha! (Though sometimes it feels like some people want to do exactly that, and then they overwork themselves and end up utterly exhausted by Christmas.)

Every ending has its time. Some things can be done in 3 seconds—like apologizing to my partner for sometimes taking him for granted. Some things require more resources—like building a house. And some things are lifelong, spiraling upward or downward—like relationships or a personal growth. The point is WHY we take on these things, and HOW we do them.

The keyword is IMPECCABILITY—I act in the best possible way, listening to my feelings and using my existing knowledge and resources AT THIS VERY MOMENT. When I have been impeccable, I know deep inside that I have given everything possible to the situation. When I have been impeccable, I have no regrets.

Wishing you impeccable completions!

With warmth,

Liisi