# Chapter 106

This is always the most difficult day of any trip or consulting or event or speaking gig - the last day. Last days are transition days and you find your mind filled with the things coming rather than the things you have right before you and it is so difficult to pull your attention back to finishing well. But if you don’t then you well may lose all the wins that you have built up for the last week, because the last day is the most important day. Its the day that will leave the most lasting memory, its the day that you complete what you started. It is most unwise to dig into the next thing coming up later today or tomorrow when you get home from flying all the way across the country when you are in your last day on the current gig.

This current event that you are working is far more important than the one that hasn’t gotten here yet. Yet if your internal mechanisms work like mine do, then you are flooded with details, T’s and I’s and moving pieces that are starting to clamor real loud for mental attention because lets face it, they are right upon you. You and I must resist this awful pressure and stay mentally fully present. No one wants to lose ground on the gains already made, but if you slip into the future inside your head, you could easily do so. And don’t forget you agreed to be present all here for even the last day of this current gig. You owe these folks that brought you 2800 miles to do this thing. Give them the full and complete service that they deserve. And when they drop you at the airport today, you can swing 180 degrees into the next one without guilt or blame.