TalenLee
@TalenLee
zandravandra
@zandravandra asked:

how does one gracefully give up on a long term project that’s just not going to get done, no matter the effort or good intentions?

this is an area where having a bullet journal like I do is a great tool for this.

What I do for this kind of thing is I put the stuff of that project together, I put it in a place like a folder or a box, and I put that away. I accept, honestly to myself, that I'm not going to do it; that the time spent trying was not time wasted.

I thank the project, honestly, for what I learned doing it.

If it's a public project, I actually try and announce it: "Hey, this project is done."

The reason I say a bullet journal is a thing is because something I try to do is journal gratitude. Think in terms of thanks, think in terms of the things you can accept and appreciate and say as endings. Write down what you're grateful about for it and then

let

it

go.

You aren't guilty. You aren't wrong. You didn't commit a misdeed. Accept the limits, accept that an end can happen. And be overjoyed that you have the opportunity to try things.


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