Finishing Well

	Message From: madure	Total Posts: 261	Join Date: 06/06/2006
Rank: Coach	Post Date: 21/08/2006 08:08:57	Points: 1355	Location: Sri Lanka

Recently I was on a lecture tour in Singapore and a well respected Christian Scholar gave me a copy of his latest book- finishing well.

The book is written for Leaders about how to finish what we have undertaken in lfe , well.

In the race it is important how we start ,and how we run. But in the end, it is how we finish that matters.

Dr.Robert Clinton, the Professor of Leadership at Fuller, USA, and the author of The making of a Leader says " Few leaders finish well. Of those on which information was available, less than 30 % finished well."

I thought of giving you the summary mentioned in his last chapter, chapter 17, which summarises all main issues.

1. To finish well in the end, we have to begin now
2. To finish the final chapter well. we have to finish each prior chapter well
3. We have to close a chapter well before we move on to the next
4 To finish well, we need a perspective from the end
5 To finish each chapter well, we need to finish it with a clear conscience
6 How well we finish depends on the relationships we leave behind
7 To finish well we need to deal ruthlessly with pride
8 To finish well, we keep the main thing the main thing
9 To finish well, we extend and accept unconditional forgiveness
10 Finishing well does not mean fulfilling all our desires
11 Finishing well means letting go and moving on
12 Finishing all is all that matters in the end

It is not hard to start something. It is hard to finish it. It is not difficult to start something well. It is difficult to finish it well. The completion is better than commencement.

I hope you will take this to heart and learn to start good things without waiting for other to do things....at the same time finish what you have already started.