Soooo agree but difficult to do at times. I remember reading somewhere an author said you don’t have to finish this book if it sucks!! Just put it down and walk away! It was a revelation like I needed permission to say it’s ok not to finish if you’re doing something you don’t like, just stop now and do something that gives you pleasure 🤯
I started doing this in other areas of my life. Like watching a movie called the 10min rule. When watching a movie with friends-partner you give the movie 10min if anyone thinks the movie sucks then we change to another one. It’s very freeing!!
The sunken cost fallacy is hard to break. I’m going to remember the line “smart resource management”. Succinct and simple!
I started the Radical IFS podcast because I wanted to share my IFS work, but no one signed up at all.
Then I had to go to the hospital for appendicitis!
When I got back home after five days in the hospital, I realized the amount of effort it took me to upload and create all the summaries and information for the podcast was killing me.
It’s a project I really loved and believed in, but I needed it to be supported in some way – with each podcast taking about three hours of time, I needed at least three subscribers to fund the support it would have taken to keep it going.
Quitting felt great!!
While I still have over 200 podcasts ready to be uploaded – four years’ worth of weekly and super cool Internal Family Systems work — I put the project on the shelf for the future, when I’ll be able to better fund it.
Sometimes, it’s just not the time for a certain project and killing ourselves to make something happen before it’s time isn’t worth it!
My retired professional project manager heart loves this exercise! I've applied it for years in my painting practice. Sometimes I get to a point in a painting when I say to my painting, “Nope, you're not working for me any longer… we’re going to take a break from one another.” I place the painting in my Work in Progress pile for another day, week, month, or even another year!
A recent example of how this worked in my favor, was recently finishing and delivering a painting I started over two years ago. My collector loved it! I'm so glad I didn't force myself to finish it back then, shortly after my mom died and I was in deep grief, because I'd likely have wrecked it.
Soooo agree but difficult to do at times. I remember reading somewhere an author said you don’t have to finish this book if it sucks!! Just put it down and walk away! It was a revelation like I needed permission to say it’s ok not to finish if you’re doing something you don’t like, just stop now and do something that gives you pleasure 🤯
I started doing this in other areas of my life. Like watching a movie called the 10min rule. When watching a movie with friends-partner you give the movie 10min if anyone thinks the movie sucks then we change to another one. It’s very freeing!!
The sunken cost fallacy is hard to break. I’m going to remember the line “smart resource management”. Succinct and simple!
This is soooo helpful! I’m going to give it a try. 💕
So important!
I started the Radical IFS podcast because I wanted to share my IFS work, but no one signed up at all.
Then I had to go to the hospital for appendicitis!
When I got back home after five days in the hospital, I realized the amount of effort it took me to upload and create all the summaries and information for the podcast was killing me.
It’s a project I really loved and believed in, but I needed it to be supported in some way – with each podcast taking about three hours of time, I needed at least three subscribers to fund the support it would have taken to keep it going.
Quitting felt great!!
While I still have over 200 podcasts ready to be uploaded – four years’ worth of weekly and super cool Internal Family Systems work — I put the project on the shelf for the future, when I’ll be able to better fund it.
Sometimes, it’s just not the time for a certain project and killing ourselves to make something happen before it’s time isn’t worth it!
WAIT I love this. Thank you for this exercise!
My retired professional project manager heart loves this exercise! I've applied it for years in my painting practice. Sometimes I get to a point in a painting when I say to my painting, “Nope, you're not working for me any longer… we’re going to take a break from one another.” I place the painting in my Work in Progress pile for another day, week, month, or even another year!
A recent example of how this worked in my favor, was recently finishing and delivering a painting I started over two years ago. My collector loved it! I'm so glad I didn't force myself to finish it back then, shortly after my mom died and I was in deep grief, because I'd likely have wrecked it.
Thanks for sharing your gifts!