Seth Godin: Dancing on the edge of finished

For the marketer, the freelancer and the entrepreneur, the challenge is to level set, to be comfortable with the undone, with the cycle of never-ending. We were trained to finish our homework, our peas and our chores. Today, we’re never finished, and that’s okay. It’s a dance, not an endless grind.

— Seth Godin, “Dancing on the edge of finished”, Seth’s Blog, 28 May 2012.

The paragraph is from a short post on Seth Godin’s blog in May 2012. We kept it because it describes a feeling everyone who works for themselves knows: nothing is ever quite finished. Godin’s answer is to live with that rather than fight it.