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Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Do You Struggle To Finish Stuff?

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Life Coach, Motivational, Personal Development, Mental Health, Life Coaching, Self-help, Education

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Why do so many creative, ambitious people struggle to finish what they start? Discovering the answer might transform your approach to every project you undertake. This episode dives deep into the psychology behind our tendency to abandon projects before completion. We explore how starting something new often feels exciting and full of possibility, while the vulnerability of finishing exposes us to potential criticism and rejection. That pattern of constant pivoting to new ideas—which seems l...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

0:09.7

Do you know anybody?

0:12.7

Maybe it's you.

0:13.7

Maybe it's somebody close to you in your life or someone that you just observe at work

0:18.2

or someone who you've just maybe known for a long time. Is there anyone

0:23.5

in your world who simply isn't a finisher? Maybe they're really creative, maybe they start

0:30.4

lots of things, maybe they kick off a project with great enthusiasm, but before you even

0:36.5

kind of get to that messy middle stage,

0:38.7

it's already abandoned. It's already in the rearview mirror. We've started something new.

0:43.1

Or this person that you're observing has started something new. I had a friend like this years ago.

0:49.8

We were friends four years and pretty close. And she was wonderful, extremely creative. She had a lot of

0:56.2

ideas. She was so funny. The way that her brain worked, I always thought was so cool and impressive

1:01.7

and dynamic. But I did notice as time passed that I don't want to say nothing, but very few things, nothing that I can even recall,

1:13.4

actually met a finish line. And over time, I began to observe that as a pattern. Sometimes I think,

1:23.0

oh, well, someone's just really creative, or even I'm creative, and I want to move in this

1:27.1

direction, and that's boring to me now. And this is a cooler opportunity, or this one lights someone's just really creative or even I'm creative and I want to move in this direction

1:27.5

and that's boring to me now and this um this is a cooler opportunity or this one lights me up more

1:32.2

or this this this you know I'm pointing at all the directions outside of me.

1:38.4

If this is you or if this is someone that you observe in your life, can we take a pause and a breath and consider something?

1:47.9

Often, we mentally check out before something can go wrong. Right, sometimes it is just natural

1:56.0

excitement and look, not everything is meant to come to fruition. Not everything is meant to be finished.

2:01.4

Sometimes you take on a project, you learn something and you move forward.

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