How To Finish

How to Finish

I drew this poster for Jon Acuff and his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.

Remember that it is always okay to ask for help. You don’t have to go through your worst moments alone, someone is out there willing to help you however they can.

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

“you did great today and deserve to be told that, you did your best (even if you don’t think it was much) and i am for sure proud of you”

— Unknown

reminder: you’re in stories your friends tell and they nice things about you in conversation

It goes without saying that this goes for partners as well as friends and family.

Friends aren’t supposed to:

Make you doubt yourself

Boss you around

Make you anxious when you’re around them

Try to make you jealous

Lie to you or lie about you

Talk bad about you behind your back

Tell you what to wear

Steal your stuff

Tell your secrets to others

Embarrass you

Make you cry

Hurt you in any way (mentally and/or physically)

If you have a ‘friend’ like this, please end that relationship. I know what it’s like to have someone treat you this way. You’ll feel so much better when you get rid of that toxicity.