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LOST Series Finale - Celebrating the completion of your project

Like some of the television viewing public, I've spent the last six seasons heavily invested in The Island, and the survivors of Oceanic flight 815. I think LOST is spectacular, and as much as I will miss the show, I do believe that one of the best decisions that the producers of the show made was proactively setting an end date. It has allowed them the ability to tell the entire story that they wanted to tell, and to do it on their own timeline, before fans grew impatient and fell away.

The same idea can apply to the marketing, copy writing, and websites that I normally talk about on this blog. If you are able to lay out a full plan and apply a definitive deadline when you know when a project needs to be completed, you free yourself to give it 100%, and are not left guessing when the project will be complete. If you know you have three days to complete something that takes 5, you rush. If you have 10 days to finish a project that takes three, you can budget your time accordingly. However, if you are not sure of the scope of the project and do not know when it is due, you can never really plan accordingly to finish the job. The writers of LOST were given that due date, and were able to plan accordingly to finish the series as they saw fit.

I only make time to watch a handful of shows, and I will surely miss the conversations, the entertainment, and the thinking that came after each episode of LOST. To commemorate the season finale, friends of ours are having a LOST viewing party. Stuart Bullen, an editor and our host, designed name badges for each of the attendees at his LOST series finale party. We'll enjoy Dharma beer and LOST themed cookies. When you complete a project, you should also take some time to commemorate your achievement. Though you may not use a theme based party, it helps to put closing statement on the project and to show those whom you work with that you appreciate their contributions in a celebratory manner.

I needed to break my normal Sunday silence on blog posts to share with you some of the planned offerings for his LOST series finale party.