The Critical Importance of Necessary Endings

By Dan Nielsen

March 17, 2016


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I am rereading and restudying the excellent and highly relevant book by Dr. Henry Cloud titled Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward. You are invited to join me. A serious read or reread of this book cannot help but help you in a critically important area of your work and life. If you want greater success, you must identify and effectively deal with necessary endings!

 

Here is a universal fact and reality for each and every one of us:

 

“Today may be the enemy of your tomorrow. In your business and perhaps your life, the tomorrow that you desire and envision may never come to pass if you do not end some things you are doing today.”

 

Necessary Endings is about how to get the results you desire by ending the things whose time has passed. “Endings are a natural part of the universe, and you must face them, stagnate, or die!” Yes, it’s just that simple, blunt, and powerful. In many cases, “endings” are just as important, if not more important than “beginnings.”

 

This book will also help you find successful strategies for dealing with necessary endings in all areas of your life. As the author states, you can become “comfortable and confident in seeing, negotiating, and even celebrating some endings that may be the door to a future even brighter than you could have imagined.”

 

Here are some great quotes and food for thought from this excellent book to wet your appetite:

 

  • “Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.”
  • “In many contexts, until we let go of what is not good, we will never find something that is good. The lesson: good cannot begin until bad ends.”
  • “When truth presents itself, the wise person sees the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments.”
  • “The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.”

 

Join me in reading or rereading this very relevant book. If you are serious in studying and applying the excellent content and concepts within this book, you will be well on your way to ACHIEVING GREATER SUCCESS!

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About the author

Dan Nielsen is the author of the books Be An Inspirational Leader: Engage, Inspire, Empower, and Presidential Leadership: Learning from United States Presidential Libraries & Museums. He regularly writes and speaks on leadership excellence and achieving greater success, and is available to deliver keynotes, lead workshops, or facilitate discussions for your group. LEARN MORE

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