You don’t have to finish every show, book or argument you start.

Starting something is not a promise to see it through. The urge to finish comes from a sense that stopping wastes what you already spent, when carrying on is what spends more of it. Arguments work the same way books do: being halfway in is not a reason to continue. Leaving is allowed at any point, not only at the end.

Abandon one thing this week that you are continuing out of habit alone. Say so plainly if it is a conversation, and simply close it if it is not.