Some projects are done before they’re finished. Let the dead ones go so the living ones get your hours.

A project can stop being alive well before you admit it, and in that gap it keeps taking time, guilt and attention that nothing is coming back for. Holding on often has less to do with belief in the work than with not wanting to be someone who quits. Letting go is a decision about where your hours go, not a verdict on you.

Look honestly at what you are carrying and ask which of it you would start today. Release one, keep whatever it taught you, and give those hours to something still breathing.