Why You Don't Finish

Do you start projects only to abandon them soon after? You might be fleeing. Don’t get me wrong, trying and failing is absolutely acceptable. How else could you learn, unless you make mistakes. But you have to allow yourself to make them. Sometimes it is difficult to decide, but a project that clearly is going nowhere is fine to abort. Don’t push through if it makes no sense. As long as a project will teach you something useful, it is probably worth pursuing. What is useful? That is a decision only you can make. Listen to others, but don’t let someone else make that decision for you. ...

September 8, 2025