What if practising endings is a skill that helps us to make the space to be our best and start what really matters?

When you think of endings, what do you think and feel? 

How do you find endings? 

If you were to consider ending as a skill or a practice, how would you say you are? 

Of course there are endings we cannot control, foresee, nor prepare for. While we have written before about how all the little endings we experience each day can help equip us to navigate these endings, what about the endings we can control? 

How many meetings have you been involved in that did not finish on time? 

What got in the way of it ending on time? 

What about the things that are left to end? Even the small things like the tabs and articles we leave open waiting to finish.

Think of all the other things that don’t end as expected. Even films now have post-credit scenes! 

In a world where it can feel like nothing ever ends or not when it should (the meetings that overrun, the films that have post-credit scenes…), what if choosing and creating endings is a skill we can develop?

Endings vs finishing something

Importantly ending and finishing are not the same thing.

Sometimes things end but never finish and some things finish but don’t feel like they ended. 

While everything will end, not everything will finish before it ends.

So how do you know when something is ended? 

What is the impact of knowing things have ended? 

What are the endings that you would like to consciously create? 

What do you need to create those endings? 

What feels possible when we know things can end and can end without finishing?

Endings are boundaries we can create to be our best

A lot is said about boundaries and their importance in all aspects of life for healthy relationships, whether it be with work, with people, with ourselves. What if ending and being practiced in ending things is part of creating the boundaries we need to be our best? 

Where can you practice endings? 

What will help you practice endings?

What will you need to create those endings? 

With those endings in place what will that allow you to start? 

What if practicing endings provides the perspective that while not everything can be finished, it will end and that is okay?