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How To Kill A Project

December 7, 2012 By Joel Runyon 10 Comments

I'm a big proponent of starting lots of things. I think it's a really good exercise in learning to become a doer. But there comes some times when you have to admit that some things fail (or even just didn't go the way you wanted them to go). Chris called this "letting go of a project." Letting go sounds really nice, but I've found it to be much more difficult than simply "letting go." The truth is that "letting go" often means a project dies, and you're ...

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