Make a timeline and action plan

Remember the SMART goals, make a plan of action and make your goals realistic and achievable. Get some support and accountability to make sure you don’t get stuck behind mental hurdles. Create a timeline for when you think each step will need to be achieved. Specify what resources or time you need to allocate and get to work.

Your next steps:

Do you feel overwhelmed or stuck in your business right now? Confused why your marketing isn’t working out the way you thought it would. Maybe you’re struggling with creating a launch plan for your program. Maybe you can’t figure out what to do NEXT – there is so much to do and you feel so behind you can’t help but get down on yourself… if that sounds familiar, I want you to take a deep breath.

This summer, I have put myself on a mission to talk to 100 entrepreneurs and solopreneurs about their business. My goal is to help each and every one of those people. Maybe that can be you too? I’d love to talk with you!

How it works: you schedule a time, we chat about your biz and your woes (totally casual and fun, and yay for picking my brain for free!), and you leave with one (usually more) action step to move forward in your biz. This call is totally pitch-free. I just want to help and see what my dear passion-bizladies are coming from to help me evaluate the programs I can put together in the future.

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https://www.kamilagornia.com/how-to-finish-what-you-start/

Ideas & Trends; The Art of Finishing Unfinished Art

By JENNY LYN BADER MAY 30, 1999

IMAGINE being Franz Xaver Sussmayr. Your teacher, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is dying, just as he's writing one of his greatest works. On his deathbed he explains how he envisions completing it. The rest is up to you.

Poor Sussmayr. No one can say which parts of the ''Requiem'' he had to make up, but he never wrote anything particularly good after that. Others would later clean up his orchestrations and create new versions based on newly unearthed sketches. Listening to the ''Requiem'' with all this in mind gives a whole new meaning to the concert series title ''Mostly Mozart.''

Finishing the unfinished artworks of the dead has always been a tricky business, but it can be a marketable enterprise, as recent events confirm.

When Ralph Ellison died five years ago, he left no instructions concerning his 2, 000-page draft for a sprawling epic. But it was trimmed by the scholar John F. Callahan into a 384-page novel, ''Juneteenth, '' and published amid great publicity last week. And Ernest Hemingway's unfinished ''True at First Light'' was cut from 850 pages to 320 by his son Patrick for publication this July in time for the writer's 100th birthday.

Dead artists tend to have more clout than living ones these days. After all, thanks to the peculiarities of restoration and rediscovery, the big art premiere last week was for Leonardo da Vinci (his newly restored ''Last Supper, '' in Milan), and at the Tony Awards next Sunday, the late Tennessee Williams could win in the ''Best New Play'' category (for his newly produced ''Not About Nightingales'').

Who knows? In an age of cultural recycling, the fine art of finishing could become a cottage industry.

Of course, not everyone shares the same definition of ''finished.'' When Stanley Kubrick died in March, having just made the final cut of ''Eyes Wide Shut, '' rumors flew that Warner Brothers might do a little more editing to insure the movie an ''R'' rating. Tom Cruise came forward and vowed to fight any alterations.

One wonders what would have happened if Mr. Cruise had been friends with Edith Wharton. Could he have have used his influence to see to it that her unfinished novel ''The Buccaneers'' would stay untouched by contemporary completers?

In defense of those who can't leave well enough alone, finishing a work can bring it to a wider audience. If Marion Mainwaring had not finished ''The Buccaneers, '' fewer readers would have encountered this work of Wharton's -- and even fewer would have tuned in to watch it on TV.

And utterly no one would have seen the unproduced final drama of Frances Sheridan, an 18th-century novelist, if a contemporary writer hadn't added an ending 233 years after her death. The resulting play, ''The Whisperers, '' with three acts by Sheridan and two more in Restoration language by Elizabeth Kuti, premiered in Ireland this spring.

Collaborating with the dead creates special challenges. It means seeing every note on a napkin as a little ''how-to'' manual, ignoring unhelpful instructions like, ''Burn this if you find it, '' and wildly guessing what the artist would have wanted.

Designers in Barcelona have been guessing since 1926 how to finish the Sagrada Familia church in the spirit that the architect Gaudi intended -- though no one can agree whether that spirit means building it as originally specified, updating it or leaving it magnificently half-built.

Charles Dickens left a half-written murder mystery without a killer. In the ingenious musical adaptation of ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'' in the 1980's, the audience chose the murderer by voting. Different endings were performed each night.

While Dickens might be as startled to discover the Broadway version of his detective novel as Victor Hugo would be to see a touring company of ''Les Miz, '' the show's creators did demonstrate a certain respect for Mr. Dickens by leaving the story unresolved.

AND audiences don't mind a little open-endedness. They will happily vote on an ending. They will turn out to see performances of Bach's unfinished ''The Art of the Fugue'' that stop where Bach did. They will read ''The Last Tycoon'' though F. Scott Fitzgerald didn't finish it.

But in cases where the artist is the art, audiences may need a little closure. When Jean Harlow died in 1937 during the filming of ''Saratoga, '' her fans wanted the movie released, so her remaining scenes were shot with Mary Dees, who stood as far from the camera as possible in a wide-brimmed hat.

When Bela Lugosi died during shooting for the 1959 cult classic ''Plan 9 from Outer Space, '' his dentist filled in for him, cloaked in a cape. When the actor Brandon Lee died in 1993 during the filming of ''The Crow, '' the filmmakers digitized his image and inserted him into new scenes, proving that the latest technology is just as good as a wide-brimmed hat.

Artists planning to die anytime soon should leave instructions. They should leave heirs, who can shop around for the right person to finish the opus. They should focus on one masterwork at a time. Schubert worked on too many at once, leaving so many fragments that scholars don't know which piece goes with which.

AND they should leave a decent beginning. That way, the prospective finisher, when in doubt, can always reprise. Franco Alfano, the poor guy who had to write the end of Puccini's ''Turandot, '' figured he might not be able to think up a better melody than the one in the aria ''Nessun Dorma, '' so he repeated the theme.

Starting with a beginning can provide inspiration. The act of finishing another's work may illuminate one's own creative struggles. Or it may promise, in the grand tradition of the cathedral and the sitcom, a revival of the artist who selflessly collaborates with others, throwing in jokes or gargoyles for the sake of the enduring whole and not for the sole credit.

Still, credit may be taken. After finishing Titian's ''Pieta, '' Palma Giovine painted a Latin inscription that read, ''What Titian began and left behind, Palma reverently completed and dedicated to God'' -- thus putting all the creators in their proper places.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/30/weekinreview/ideas-trends-the-art-of-finishing-unfinished-art.html? _r=0

The Magic Art of Finishing Up

It’s super easy to start writing. New ideas are shiny and exciting. There are worlds to explore and characters to get to know. You may plot, plan, research, outline, and even write a big part of your books. Only to get distracted when the next shiny, exciting idea comes along and seems SOOO much better than the current one.

If you’ve been a writer for any length of time, you have likely worked on a lot of projects. How many of them have you finished? Do you have an archive of half-finished manuscripts on your computer? A plethora of first drafts that have never been revised?

It’s easy to put away the old one, sure that the new one is going to be The One.

Until it’s not. It’s like being a serial dater, barely getting to know one book before moving on to the next.