If you have a project or something that you have been meaing to do for a while and you just don’t, this post is for you!

Specially if you have tried multiple times to finish said project yet you always drop it at some point.

I have quite a few tips, turned into a process to help you get sorted, plan and implement the whole thing.

We will need to get brutally honest with ourselves here. Starting with:

1. Will it matter in a few years?

First things first — if you DO NOT complete this project in the next 2-3 month or even 2-3 years, will it bother you? Will you still be wanting to do it?

If not, do a little releasing ritual/prayer for it and let it go, love! Take this load off your chest. It wasn’t meant to be complete and that is totally fine! Free yourself from it and any weird feelings associated with it.

Now, if you feel if you don’t do it, it WILL bother you in a few months or years down the road, great! Keep reading. This post is really meant for you.

2. Identify why you keep resisting completing that project.

That is one of the most important steps, my love — to define WHY you’ve been dropping it half way. Because pushing through without understanding yourself and why there’s resistance towards it will not make things easier and you might end up falling in the same trap again — starting it and not finishing it.

Sit with it for a moment. Sit with what is making it so difficult to accomplish. Dig in on the real reasons you ended up not doing it before. 🔎Hint — even thou at the surface level it *might* sound like “I don’t have time”, dig in a bit further and deeper. There’s usually something else underneath that.

🌸👇🏼 Here's my example {online entrepreneurs might relate to it!}

🤳🏼I created a “new” IG account and have been meaning to grow it for…. 2 whole years!
Yet I have done absolutely nothing with it all this time. Have I tried? Yes.  Twice. And for no longer than a week each time 🙃

So now I was asking myself why was that? Why I didn’t stick with it more than a week? What made me stop it so soon each time?

There were many surface level reasons, yet when I really got honest with myself, those two kept showing up in different forms:

• I do struggle with being visible. It will sound odd for anyone that doesn’t know me personally, but that’s a real issue that I face time and time again
• It all dies out so fast. If a post doesn’t pick up traction right away, it is gone, forgotten and all that work that went into creating it goes for nothing. It’s exhausting and I feel it is such a waste of my time.

There were a few more things but those were the ones really weighting on me.

Ok, moving on to the next step👇🏼

3. Identify any particularly hard process or task within that project.

Here we identify something concrete and tangible that is getting in the way. Something that becomes an obstacle in a more daily-tasks kind of way.

For instance if you have to do a lot of set up before getting to the task, or there’s a lot of clean up afterwards, or even worse — to get to the main task, you have to complete multiple mini ones before hand.

🌸👇🏼 My example so it is more clear

When I asked myself anything hard about the process this showed up as:

• Making videos! I really dislike making them and since reels are still the main focus on IG, creating content for my account got to be the last thing on my list that I’d do. In my mind, to get a reel ready, I’d have to set the environment, clear my desk/art table, arrange the tripod, camera, etc, and then be on my phone editing for hours. It all felt like such a hassle and so much prep work that’d keep pushing it as much as possible and ended up not doing it at all! Which also reinforces the “it all dies out so fast” from question #2. So much work and it might not even get eyes on it. 😑

4. Identify other references from your own experience as inspiration.

Now this is where things start to get good! We will now dig in our own archives {experiences} where, in similar situations, we actually thrived and everything felt much easier to accomplish. Something that we have gone through already, we did well and it was – dare I say it – easy!

🌸👇🏼 In my case 

• Pinterest. I always loved Pinterest and got results really fast with it. Reason being is that that platform releases me from the 3 burdens from questions #2 and #3 right away:  I don’t need to necessarily show my face, I don’t need to record videos and even thou I might have to post a lot, it never goes to waste even without an initial traction — it compounds over time.{Side note: Seriously love, if you are an online entrepreneur and hadn’t dabbled into Pinterest yet, go take a look! It has been more than 10 yrs that I have that account, totally abandoned it in the last few and I still get people finding me through it! PLUS I have retaken it in the last few weeks and I’m shocked by how much results I am already getting from it!}

5. Find solutions!

Because there ARE solutions out there, my love. Combining the experiences that you had that worked well, the clarity of what is stopping you from tackling that project AND the sweet darling engine of your own smart brain, solutions will be found! Guaranteed!

Ask yourself questions to specifically solve the problems under numbers #2 and #3.

🌸👇🏼 For instance, continuing with my example: 

• How can I simplify making videos? Is it really that much work or am I letting my perfectionism kick in again?
• Are there any tools, apps, or platforms out there that can help me with that?
• Maybe it is time to take batching seriously? 🥴 {I hate batching!}
• But do you, Raine? How come you have been batching for Pinterest without blinking an eye? What makes batching for Pinterest so much easier and actually enjoyable?
• Is it really batching the problem or is it the platform {IG} that you feel very resistant to? {back to #2}
• What would be the ideal scenario for you to create reels or any type of content for IG?
• Is it really only reels that can work over there?
• etc, etc, etc.

You see that I am literally talking to myself here — asking myself a question, answering them and then questioning them again, so I can really uncover answers and solutions to get the friction and resistance out and in a way that will work for me.

The juicy part here is that through this process you are mapping out a step-by-step tailored to you and you only. Based on what *you* currently get stuck on, tools to avoid it and creating solutions that makes sense and are doable to *you*.

Now, there are two last things to make sure we are really flushing resistance out:

6. Assess how you are feeling about that project still not being done by now.

We did all this digging about root causes, talked about how to avoid them and came up with a plan of action tailored to you. However before you roll up your sleeves to get it all done: is there any guilt or any slight shame about *not* getting it done yet? Meaning, do you feel pressure or discomfort that you are late, behind or that this “should have been done already, I can’t believe I am still at it”?

If not, and you feel all is clear then great! Get on to tackle the project.

But if you have that story, or a variation of it, running in the back of your mind… you need to release it, love. Otherwise it will linger around you and interfere on how, when you get it done and worse — how you feel about getting it done. So if any of those guilty thoughts are there, give yourself permission to feel them, add some compassion for the times you didn’t focus on your project, process those feelings, let it move through you and out of  you…. and ON with your life!

It’s never good to be feeding any type of guilt or shame about what we did and didn’t do.

🌸👇🏼 This is how it played out for me 

• • I felt guilt for… not feeling guilt? Here’s the thing — my  default mode has always been to feel guilty if I didn’t do something I told myself I’d do.Apparently that’s how I *used* to be me thou.At the end of March, I got a notification on my phone showing a “on this day” screenshot I took when I first registered my new IG account. I saw that, was surprised and laughed it out “Dang! 2 years flew by!” and left it at that.Mind you, actively growing my account has been in and out of my mind throughout. But there wasn’t any heaviness, guilt or charge around it. It was just something I’d remember from time to time.So when I realized, it had been TWO years and I wasn’t feeling any sort of bad feelings for not tackling ir sooner…. I actually stared feeling guilty that I was *supposed* to be feeling bad and yet I was totally fine. My mind went straight on:👿 “How is that possible, Raine? You told yourself you’d do it, and you didn’t. And yet…. you feel no shame at all?”
    😇 “lol no. I’m fine with it. It was a fun I’ll-post-wherever-I-want kind of ride”
    👿 “well, you *should* feel guilty, Raine. There is some much you want to create still and this account is not even properly set up. How on earth that is ok for you after TWO YEARS? How does it NOT bother you?”And shockingly, I actually started to feel a bit of guilt because I wasn’t feeling guilt 🥴I started feeling that yeah, I was *supposed* to feel bad for letting it slip, what’s wrong with me? How can I just be chill like this?Now, isn’t this insane or what? I’ve always been so used to beating myself up for perceived *must* dos that this old pattern crept in — I thought I should feel bad that I wasn’t feeling bad 🙃Once I realized this I quickly shook it all out of me because of course, a guilt free mind operates much better and with much more clarity.

So… lovely, ANY slight heaviness or discomfort about the timing of your project —  get that out of your system!

Now, on with the last note:

7. You are off the hook!

Once you give your project a GOOD try — let yourself off the hook!

Meaning, you did it, put your best out there and at the end of the day, was it what you expected? Did you love the process and the results? Hated both or were both of them kind of meh?

If your project is a one-time-and-done kind of thing, with a clear starting point and end point {like a room re-deco or writing a book for instance}, great! You’ll know exactly when it is complete.
If it is like mine – an ongoing project – set a specific milestone that will signal to you that is the moment to take a pause and evaluate. See all that has been done and the experience you just went through!

Give yourself some generous pets on the back and let yourself off the hook. It might have been all that you thought it would be or it might not. The point is that you went through with the process, experienced it all the way until completed and that is what matters!

Ok my love, if you are ON and up for the challenge of getting that project done, leeeezzzzdooeeettttt!!! 💪🏼

The time is now! {or wherever time you decide it is for *you* ⭐️😉}

Smooches,