“It doesn’t matter how you start, it’s how you finish that’s important”. Common idiom.
How early does the day get ruined for you? When lunch isn’t what you’d hoped for? When your mid-morning coffee is bad? Before you get out of bed?
It’s easy to chuck in the towel on a day when something doesn’t go right. But that doesn’t mean that day can’t be revitalised or another attempt isn’t worth it.
My most effective work time, I have discovered, is between 3pm and 5pm. Maybe it’s my specific rhythm, or maybe it’s my innate desire to not leave the office too late, but I find myself working through large amounts of tasks during that time every day.
What that means is that I don’t ‘win the morning’, or wake up and hustle before the rest of the world.
It has taught me is that even if I don’t start the day like a bull at a gate, I can still finish strongly, getting through a lot of work in the final stretch before the day is done.
My best days are when I do both – start strong and finish strong, but I can take any day which hasn’t started well and make it a good one. It’s the same for a week, or a month, or a year, or a decade, or a lifetime. It’s a very helpful principal.
It doesn’t matter how you have started 2025, it’s how you finish that’s important.
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