#225 - Your Idea Will Jump to Someone Else If You Do Not Act On It

You have started something. Maybe it was a book, a business, a creative project, a dream you put on the back burner because life got in the way. Salisha is here today with a question that might sting a little.

What would happen if you actually finished it?

In this episode, you'll hear about:

• Why finishing what you start creates a momentum that time itself cannot ignore
• The guilty pleasure that taught Salisha everything she knows about follow through
• What happened when she read You Are a Badass and felt a feeling she was not proud of
• The books sitting on her shelf that she wrote but never published and what that taught her
• Why your idea is not just yours to keep sitting on
• The difference between starting something and seeing it all the way through to the end

The vision starts in the mind. The work backs it up. But the magic?

The magic is in the follow through!

CHAPTERS

• [00:54] The importance of finishing what you start
• [01:35] The guilty pleasure that explains everything
• [02:22] What if you finished every project you ever started?
• [03:28] When life gets in the way and you just kind of stop
• [04:33] The law of momentum and what happens when you show up every day
• [05:45] Success is in the follow through
• [06:46] I could have written that book but I didn't
• [07:37] Stop coulda shoulda woulda and do the work
• [08:13] If God gives you an idea act on it or watch someone else do it

@salishathomas @thesalishashow, www.thesalishashow.com

Many thanks to Gotham Network in NYC, TyNia Brandon for writing and laying vocals down for the updated theme song and Big Red Studios for the intro video wherever you watch the latest season of The Salisha Show!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Hello, what's up? It's me, Salish, and welcome or welcome back to the Salisha Show. I'm here at the beautiful Gotham Production Studios in Midtown Manhattan, and we are recording on the Gotham Podcast Network. Let's go. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Um, so I was thinking a little bit about finishing what you start, the importance of finishing what you start. There is a magic that happens when you decide to finish the things that you've started. And this could be anything. Sometimes I'm I get very compulsive about this, and it's annoying, but it feels so good. Like one of my guilty pleasures is finishing products. When I was little, I used to have like half-empty bottles of everything in my cabinet. And as an adult, like I will not buy a new shampoo or I will not open the new shampoo until my last one is like every drop. It's like there's not a drop left. There is something so empowering to me about throwing a bottle in the trash that is so completely empty. I love it. I feel the same way about books. Like when I start reading a book, I have to finish it. Now, some books take me longer than others, but there is this beautiful feeling that when I get to the last page, it's like, oh, it's done. I can close that chapter literally and figuratively, I can close that chapter and move on to something else. But really, what this really benefits you for is if you apply it to the projects that you begin. If you were to finish every project that you started, where would you be today? This is really a question for myself. Because I start a lot of projects. And sometimes I'm so motivated to finish it right away. Like it's just like what I'm doing, it's just like on top of mine. And then there are other times when it takes me a minute, it takes me a couple of years, maybe more than a couple of years. And I kind of just like put it on the back burner. But those things that you have put on the back burner, you still have the power and the choice to take it off of the back burner and fuel some energy into it. What would happen if you did that? When's the last time you finished something that you really believed in or that you were really excited about to start? But maybe life got in the way, maybe you got discouraged along the way, maybe just things came up. Whatever that was, you just kind of stopped. Why? Could you pick it back up? Could you keep going? Could you do it? I um I have a book that I've published, Why Be a Nine When You Can Be a Ten? This is not the only book I have written, but is the only book that I have not just finished, but got edited, not just edited, but created a cover, created like the back cover, and like saw it all the way through to the end. I have other books sitting on my bookshelf that I wrote, but I did not get it all the way to publication.

unknown 4:15

Why not?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Well, I do have reasons for that that I will not go into right now on this show. But what is that for you? Because when you decide to finish something all the way through, some really cool things can happen. It's okay if it sucks, but once you start fueling energy behind it and focus on it, you start to create this momentum. And there's a law of momentum and a like the power of momentum that when you put your attention on something every single day, even if it's just for a little bit, a little while, a little amount of time, or you just do a little bit here or there. But if you do it every day, time starts to bend a little bit, and things start to get done. And before you know it, you will blink and you will have done a thing. You will have created a thing. But before you can get there, you have to like do the work. And before you can do the work, you have to visualize the dream. You have to see the vision. So it starts in the mind, then you back it up with action, but then you don't just stop with starting it. You got a follow through. Um, one of the chapters in this book, it I don't even know what the name of the chapter is, but it ha I got fancy, fancy chapter titles for basic things like Success is in the follow-through. That might be the name of the chapter. But I might have called it something else so that it sounds better. Oh, I think I called it how to get things done. That might be the chapter for it. Oh my gosh, I haven't read my book. I haven't read my own book in a few months. But the basic level of what I'm getting at is success is in the follow-through. There's a lot of things that people have completed out there that are not good, but they did it. They did the work. So what could that be for you? Instead of complaining that so-and-so took your idea or that you could have done that. Yeah, I bet you could have done that. But did you? Did you start it? Did you finish it? Did you even try? Listen, I'm just saying, before we like complain that, well, I could, that's how I felt. That's literally how I felt years ago when I first picked up, oh my gosh, a book that I love called You Are a Badass. I loved that book. But I also was like a little bit mad. I was like, I could have written this book. Yeah, but I didn't. I didn't. She beat me to it. So instead of wasting time saying, I coulda, shoulda, woulda, no, I had to pick something and do the work myself and it be my own thing. And and and it's mine to own. Like there's no, you gotta stop comparing or thinking like what you could have done. Just what is it? What do you have before you right now? And what is it that's on your heart to create right now? Because if there's if there's something on your mind or your heart to create and you don't act on it, it will jump into somebody like the idea is like a noun. It's like a person, it will, or like a thing, it will like jump to somebody else who will do something with it. So make that person you. You be the one that God can trust with projects, with um, with uh uh what is it called? Missions. Like if he gives you a mission, if he gives you a project to do, if he gives you like an idea, act on it and don't just act on it, but see it through and follow it through, or else don't be surprised when somebody in your sphere has the same exact idea and has actually done something with it. It moved on if you didn't do anything with it. But if you are blessed enough with a great idea, oh do something. Do something and finish it. That's all I got today. Be well. See you next week.