Finish What You Start

 
Here's another key to success:

Finish what you start.

This seems to characterize people
who succeed. When they start something,
they finish it.

Years ago, I recall recruiters coming
to Coleman College in San Diego, CA,
where I was a student.

These recruiters were from EDS Corporation,
a company founded by and run by Ross Perot
at that time. This was around 1984 or so.

Because Coleman College is a computer school,
the recruiters were there to recruit the best
students from each class. EDS is a computer
services company.

The application process for EDS took you all
the way back to elementary school. No one
could believe it!

What company cared about your elementary school
records? EDS did.

A primary thing they looked for is if you finished
what you started. Were you a finisher?

EDS examined your entire life, practically from
birth, to see if you completed the things you had
started. They were looking to hire winners.
Winners finish.

Country music star Carrie Underwood went back and
finished college after winning American Idol in
May of 2005.

She had one semester left and graduated in May of
2006.

Most people would have decided to forget college
and pursue the career. Who can blame them?

Carrie, million-dollar recording contract in hand,
went back and finished her final semester and got
her degree magna cum laude.

Now that's a finisher!

No wonder she's been one of the most successful American
Idol winners to date. She finishes. Whatever she
starts, she finishes.

Finishing is not just a matter of completing. It's
completing it, giving it your best.

Ed Abbott