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Completion
Generally our world doesn‘t give much time or space for completion. We‘re busy, busy, busy with lots of things to do and wanting to dash off to the next thing right now, thank you very much.
So, it‘s particularly important to create structures that have us focus on attending to completion. Whatever the designated period of time (a meeting or a year) and whatever the designated measure (the solstice, the lunar calendar or our western calendar) it‘s important to take time to complete.
What does that look like? Well, it as varied as we human beings are and usually involves some form of review, celebrating and honoring both successes and failures and savoring the juicy bits.
Really good completion leaves us a little empty (rather than stuffed full of recent past experiences) with room therefore for all the rich experiences that are to come.
For me, 2009 has been a particularly full year, rich with experience, challenge and learning. So on this, the final day of 2009, I‘ll be spending some time reviewing and completing the year.
I follow a very basic structure used, I believe, by coaches around the world. I make a list of several things: My success and breakthroughs; failures and breakdowns; disappointments and unexpected surprises. Anything that feels incomplete. Then Henry and I crack open a bottle of great champagne and go over the year together, ending with some sort of ceremonial destruction of our lists. ..usually burning them in a fireplace. I generally feel great at the end of this process. Open, ready. . . complete.
I‘d be interested to hear how you complete and your thoughts on completion in general.
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