What advice, pep-talk, or encouragement can you give to many of us who do not finish what we start, or give the extra 'umph' to perfect our work?

Homesteading land was available for free near Sydney, Australia—but I didn’t want to go through with it.

Ten years ago, heck, I had a BOOK CONTRACT with Thomas Nelson, but I never finished the work. ten years have passed.

I forfeited an advanced architectural degree because I hated calculus and a few other advanced math courses.

I forfeited a lot of things because I couldn’t discipline myself to become computer literate.

I have a Masters degree—one of two really good accomplishments—but never advanced to a doctorate or even sought teaching credentials because—it was too much effort.

I even sought learning a language recently but once I whetted my curiosity, I didn’t want to go through with it.

You may despise me, but I think I speak for a lot of people who just didn’t get there. Maybe we were too busy and couldn’t get started or find time. Maybe we just didn’t finish or take the effort to push ourselves through the finish line.

What’s your advice to people like me, and others like me, who could have ‘made it’ but don’t finish what we began, or put the effort in to perfect our work and ambitions?