Completion is the Key

A Zen story goes something like this:

A student was having a meal with his Master. When they were finished eating, the student asked his Master, "What should I do now?"
The Master replied, "Clean your bowl."
At that moment the student was enlightened.

This story illustrates one of the most important ideas that we all should take to heart. That idea is that whatever we start, we must complete. Leaving a task undone, unfinished, or incomplete is the surest path to failure. Success in life can be summarized in a few sentences: Show up and complete the job.

It's amazing how few people fail to do those two seemingly simple things. That is why they separate the winners from the losers.

In Week Four of THE MASTER KEY SYSTEM (http://www.themks.com), Charles F. Haanel (http://www.haanel.com) held no punches when he wrote:

12. Unless you do this, you had better not start at all, because modern
Psychology tells us that when we start something and do not
complete it, or make a resolution and do not keep it, we are
forming the habit of failure