In materialist society we have been conditioned into believing that getting things done and finishing projects is ‘completion.’ The problem with understanding completion in this way is that we are often externalising our validation, forcing projects beyond where we want them to be and ultimately ending up with a stockpile of work we are yet to ‘complete.’
The Navigation Codex treats completion in a completely different way. Completion under the framework is understanding when something has served its purpose – irrespective of whether it looks finished by external standards.
The Two Ways of Looking at Completion
Let’s explore those two types of completion, what they look like and importantly, how they serve you.
Materialist Completion – What Society Teaches You
There are 4 core aspects of materialist completion.
- Finishing the project,
- Reaching a predefined goal,
- Checking all the boxes along the way,
- Tracking progress with achievement markers.
True Completion – What The Navigation Codex Reveals
The Navigation Codex treats completion in a sovereign and honest way.
The experience has given you all that it can give.
You have learned from that experience and any resistance pattern you navigated has dissolved.
The next navigational pathways open up and you progress and finally, the purpose is fulfilled, whether that looks finished or not.
Why Understanding Completion Changes Everything
Humans have a tendency toward perfectionism, often pushing projects and goals beyond their natural endpoint in the hope that the resultant product feels more complete. Many people are stuck in stagnation, holding onto experiences that have already served their purpose and have no way to take the exit ramp because they have a vague notion it is incomplete.
The irony is, most people haven’t got a crystalised version of what completeness is, so they just continually spin their wheels, forcing toward an outcome they’re not even sure exists.
Flipping this onto The Navigation Codex and understanding completion from this perspective allows you to understand when to stop forcing beyond the natural endpoint and start recognising when to progress onto other things naturally.
Example of The Two Completion Perspectives in Daily Life
Let’s look at a common goal people have and struggle to ‘complete’ in the traditional sense. We have all at some point felt compelled to start some form of fitness routine, with some arbitrary goal and timeframe attached.
For purposes of this example, let’s say you want to lose a stone of weight, and you are setting a time frame of 2 months. Immediately you have set into your completion metric two failure points, and you have really misunderstood what the natural urge directing you towards a fitness outcome was.
The Navigation Codex would state that goals are irrelevant, you should undertake your fitness routine until your relationship with your body has fundamentally shifted. The less resistance you build into your plan, the higher the likelihood time will fly by, and you will reach your natural completion.
Irrespective though, you may find completion takes a few weeks or three years – it really doesn’t matter, the key is you are engaging naturally with what your intuition is telling you, I am not happy with my health, so I can implement a fitness routine until I naturally feel better about my health.
How To Understand When Something is Truly Complete?
It is quite straightforward to recognise completion under The Navigation Codex.
Ask yourself 5 simple questions and you can gauge exactly where you are.
- Have I received the gift this experience came to offer?
- Has my capacity to navigate (move onto other things) expanded through this experience?
- Do I naturally feel ready to move onto other things?
- If I continue, will I need to start increasing the amount of force and energy expenditure?
- Would I deem this complete if there were no external expectations?
Trust the answers. Your natural intuition is there to guide you and knows exactly when completion has occurred.
The Liberation of Completion Using The Navigation Codex
Most people are carrying around huge burdens of ‘unfinished’ things in their life that have long ago served their purpose and actually complete from a Codex perspective.
There is very literally no point trying to finish something that has given all it has to give – it is a fruitless endeavour.
Instead of carrying the deadweight resistance patterns of so-called unfinished things, you can feel liberated, drop the baggage and move onto more fruit bearing things.
Practical Application of Completion Using The Navigation Codex
Let’s explore this new approach to completion across our lives.
Understanding Completion in Personal Projects
With personal projects, a lot of the time it is natural passion that drives us. We want to experience growth, learning or even a sense of achievement.
There always comes a point where you meet that crossroads, am I finished? Can I do more? The likelihood is you will always be able to do more, but with diminishing returns or even no return. Instead of asking is this complete? Ask yourself am I complete?
Have you got all you needed to from the project?
Understanding Completion in Relationships
Some relationships are naturally meant to last a lifetime, people feel deeply connected to who you are as a person. But some relationships are only meant to be naturally fleeting, maybe a single conversation, a three month fling, or a few years.
The key here is duration isn’t the measurement, how you develop your authentic experiences together is the metric. If a relationship is fulfilling and continues to open up combined navigational pathways, it was meant for you.
If relationships come to there natural conclusion there is a great tendency for people to refuse to let go. Unable to process that completion and forcing a relationship to continue when it definitely shouldn’t.
In respect to relationships, the practice of completion under The Navigation Codex is profound, it liberates you in a way that enables you to move forward without regret and without resentment. At its worse, lacking understanding of completion can cause you to be stuck in a bitter existence with someone you no longer align with.
Understanding Completion in Career Choices
Career choices bridge both aspects of relationships and personal projects. You have the ability to move beyond dead end jobs or unfulfilling experiences with colleagues when you remember what made you take the job in the first place. It might be learning, financial stability, any number of things.
But a job is less durable than a relationship in most cases and the completion comes much sooner, because there is only so much a job can provide you before it is natural to move on.
Take what you need from the experience, understand when it is complete and progress onwards to better opportunities.
Understanding Completion in Creative Work
This is the trickiest completion recognition because our creative work often serves two purposes in a materialist world. The first is obviously creative expression, but more commonly it is also commercial value or in short external opinion.
Under The Navigation Codex, the second option isn’t a thing. Van Gogh didn’t receive any commercial value for his work; others ignored it completely. Yet he sensed when his work was complete, and he had expressed himself completely through it.
Creative work becomes a self-authenticity exercise rather than ‘let me paint this and try to sell it for millions.’ The beauty is, when you create for yourself from a place of authenticity, the work itself is naturally better and likely to open the space where others will value it.
The Deeper Recognition of Completion
True completion becomes a way of honouring your intuition that bought you into an experience and trusting that same intuition to know when the experience has run its course.
When you understand what completion really is, you stop forcing yourself into bad situations and start to flow into new and better situations.
What’s more, all that angst, heartbreak, sense of failure and frustration dissipates when you stop holding onto things that are no longer serving you. Completion is catharsis.
Obviously, it is entirely up to you how you approach completion, and I am in no way telling you that you must do this. I just wanted to share my knowledge and at least then you have an option to view completion from a different perspective.
Always follow your natural instinct and choose a path that seems most natural to you.