Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

The Truth About Finishing Your Big Goals! #shorts #success

25 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this motivational YouTube short, the speaker explains that large goals often have multiple "finish lines" rather than a single endpoint. Using the process of writing a book as an illustration, they break down the stages—writing, editing, publishing, cover design, and promotion—showing that each stage requires its own completion effort. The speaker emphasizes that after completing one stage, the next set of tasks emerges, and without ongoing accountability and supportive people, momentum can stall. By surrounding oneself with encouraging peers who recognize each milestone and prompt the next, individuals can keep pushing forward and avoid feeling stuck when the initial "shiny" goal appears finished.

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Sometimes it's like that's been stalled and I need to start pushing the rock up the hill again. So those things are very important to me when I'm thinking about how can I get going again on those kinds of things. It's also really important to know that the finish line isn't the finish line all the time. So for example, let's talk about writing a book. There is finishing writing the book, then there's finishing editing the book, then there's finishing the, you know, how am I publishing it point of view. Then there is the— well, the book cover comes before publishing, but you get what I'm saying. There's a lot of finishing lines along the way. And even though you've written the book, you've edited the book, everything's ready to go, it's up on whatever platform it is you're selling slash giving away, whatever you're doing with your book, that part's done. Oh, guess what? There's a whole other cornucopia of things that you need to do in order to promote the book. Which is an entirely different project. So sometimes that shiny object being the book, it's like, I'm done, yay! But the whole purpose of writing the book was to do this, and now there's a whole other piece to do it as well, okay? So if you had accountability around you, you had people with you who were cheering you on, who would be able to say, fantastic, now the book's done, now this is the next step.