How To Finish

By Sharman J. Monroe

A lot of comments came in on my earlier post, To The Finish and Beyond…..  People felt that finishing everything you start was an excellent way to live and decided to do so in their lives.  Well, it’s May and so far I have stuck to my challenge.  Since January, I have finished many projects I’ve started.  For the projects I haven’t finished, I’m aware they are outstanding and am still working on them.  I even went back to the eight incomplete projects I talked about in my post and completed four of them!

Some of you may be thinking that finishing everything you start is an impossible task to do, but it really isn’t.  If you feel up for the challenge, then here are some tips to help you succeed:

1. Record commitments and activities.  Write all your commitments and activities on a calendar or in a planner when you make the commitment or start the activity.

A Day of Discovery

by Sharman J. Monroe

Tuesday morning I woke up and turned on TV to get the weather forecast. I heard on the news that the shuttle Discovery was being flown from Florida to Washington, D.C. on the back of a 747 and would be here around 10:45 a.m. Wow! I immediately thought I would love to see that. I am really into all things about space (space travel, Star Trek, Star Wars) and seeing a space shuttle being carried on the back of an airplane completely excites me. Then the newscaster said the shuttle was landing at Dulles International Airport. Well, Dulles is about an hour’s drive from my house and I wasn’t even out of bed yet. Oh well, I thought that counts me out.

I turned off the TV and I got out of bed to start my day.  I thought about washing my car early to get that task out of the way, but I looked out in the backyard and my daughter had put the dog outside already. You see, I have to open the back gate to wash the car and the dog definitely will not stay in the yard and once you bring him in the house, he won’t go back out.  

Let us Eat and Drink for Tomorrow we Die

Reblogged from Jesus Carries Me:

Scripture Reference: Isaiah 22:12-14

These words have become quite the cliché even to the point that some believe it is an American Proverb! Since this phrase is often quoted out of the context from which it is written in the Bible, it is also given to much misinterpretation. In order to understand the purpose of this phrase in the Bible, I will give some background regarding the context and then discuss the life application.

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To The Finish and Beyond……..

by Sharman J. Monroe

A few weeks ago I suddenly heard a still, small voice say, “You don’t finish what you start”.  I started thinking and realized this statement was very accurate.  I made a list projects I had started over the past two years and along with the vision I had when I started them.  To my surprise, the list contained eight major incomplete projects.  I saw a pattern.  I’m excited when I get a new idea and start working on it to bring it to life.  I eagerly write out the necessary actions, a to-do list, to make the idea a reality.  Clear visions dance in my head of what is to come as a result of this new project.  Sometimes I add way-in-the-future actions to my list.  I am excited!  I rack up check marks because I faithfully complete each step to get the project up.  After the project basics are done, I start working on the main thing, the project.  And I work and work and work and…..then I stop.  God’s statement to me, “you don’t finish what you start”, made me realize