“Unfinished business of any kind pulls us into the past and keeps us from being fully engaged in the present.”

A thought by Les Parrott, (2012-08-02) from his book, You're Stronger Than You Think: The Power to Do What You Feel You Can't (p. 55). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.

There are things in our past that keep us from really being focused and being successful in the present. Somehow we need to tie up those loose ends so that we don’t struggle with thinking for the solution for our present situation.

God has given us a tremendous tool to help us in solving life’s problems. It is our mind. But when it is cluttered with so much stuff it can get stuck and one of the things that keep it cluttered is unfinished things that we need to take care of.

For example, I had set aside this afternoon to write this blog. That is what I usually do but I had some unfinished business that was getting in my way of writing today. It was a Spring Training game between the Dodgers and the Giants. I started listening to it and I then set it aside to write but I kept going back to it checking the score. Now a Spring Training game doesn’t really matter but it can be a distraction to such a devoted fan so I finished the game and now I am back to writing with a more focused mind.

Somehow I needed to clean up the loose end so that I could let my mind do its job more successfully.

Now the game ended in a tie because the Giants scored 4 runs in the 9^th inning so I had to also get rid of that emotional let-down so here I am giving my mind total focus on writing today’s blog.

And I’ll let you be the judge as to whether I was successful or not.

What are some of your loose ends that are holding you back?

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