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The happiness of pursuit

I am a “starter”.

I start things and struggle to finish things.

For a long time and in many places that was seen as a huge disadvantage, a character flaw and one that should be rectified.

I found peace in the fact that I am not the only one of those and that in fact it is a well-recognised character type.

Some of the greatest innovations and biggest leaps for mankind have come from starters.

My wife is a finisher, who doesn’t initiate (not with any joy) I didn’t “deliberately” choose a finisher as my partner, but the fact that I did (or that she did) seems to have worked amazingly well.

What this means though, is that for me happiness is in the journey and the start of the journey.

Give me the opportunity to plan something and to set it out and to draw a map or write a recipe, that is where I am at my best, my most engaged and using most of my head.

Lock me in a room to finish a task and what will happen is I will find a way to start something else.

The process of building a new practice, a new facility which is bigger to me than a practice ever would have been, is that I finished starting it ages ago and now I am into the process of starting to finish it.

Sitting through meetings to assess the progress of the project, to count the money is just death to me but something that I know I have to take responsibility for.

What I hoped that this would do, this new place, this new thing, is to give me the ability to start time and time again.

By Colin Campbell on 04/11/2019, 18:00