Monday Morning Motivation: Finish What You Start

Today is the first day of my last semester of school. Probably ever. While I might go back and get a PhD, your girl is done with school for the time being. It feels good to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I remember last summer, when I was dreading my second year of graduate school and I was overwhelmed. I sat in the backyard and watched my kids play. I called my sister and started to vent. “I don’t know if I can do this. I’m so stressed all the time. I’m trying to run my own business, spend enough time with my kids and husband, do my schoolwork, find time to cook, clean, and be my sexy self at night. It’s exhausting. I just…don’t know if I can do this.”

I was contemplating taking a break, maybe a semester off, just so I can get my mind right and feel refreshed for a minute. But my sister just simply said, “No. Continue and finish.” I argued with her for about 30 minutes (mind you, she is my younger sister) and when I hung up the phone, I was tired but decided that I would push through and try to “hurry up and finish.”

Now here I sit, with other 100 days between me and my Master’s degree. This semester will be no cakewalk, but there is a relief in my shoulders as I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Which brings me to today’s point. If there’s something that’s weighing on you, but you need to finish in order to get to the next level, then stick with it. It may be difficult, but these are growing pains. You’ll be better once you get through it and that’s all that matters.

So push yourself to stick with it. You don’t have to go as fast as anyone else, you don’t have to compete with anyone else, but you owe it to yourself to see it through – whether it’s work, the business proposal for your side hustle, your journey to a degree. Whatever it is, finish what you start.