I think this is a closely related and equally important quote (emphasis added): > “okay, there are, four home improvement projects that all feel essential to m

I think this is a closely related and equally important quote (emphasis added): > “okay, there are, four home improvement projects that all feel essential to making my living space acceptable. I'm going to deliberately give up all hope of making progress on three of them until I have seen one of them through to completion, or consciously abandoned it because it turned out to be a bad idea, that's okay too.” My biggest sources of anxiety have always been those projects that I should have pulled the plug on looooooong before I actually pulled the plug. Having a bunch of projects going all at once not only allows you to switch focus as a coping mechanism, but also allows you to avoid facing the (possibly somewhat traumatic) reality that the project needs to be killed.