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Turnaround.
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'The state I'm in.'
So the escape route I'm taking is to progressively formally terminate projects as their domain renewal becomes due. Ahead of that, almost all are considered sidelined/inactive.
I wish now I'd chosen to focus on just a few projects, rather than progressively increase it to so many. Oh well. Not my first mistake and won't be the last. And I can see where and why and how things veered into the ditch, so at least I've learned something.
I can take the emotional hit of my mistakes. What troubles me more is the financial cost, the already-spent sunk wasted money that ain't coming back.
With perhaps 50+ projects (many of which are simply books, and so things aren't as excessive as they might seem) and 200-ish associated domains, although relatively low it's still significant—I could've done better things with the money I have, or retained it as part of personal savings.
But although I feel crap about this, it may be preferable to the continuing spend of keeping projects alive, domain renewal during the indefinite/ongoing periods when I'm either not earning and/or for the up-to-two-year period in which projects are queued until I can get to them and they become ready for launch.
Am I thinking clearly about things? Almost certainly not.
But by aborting projects and returning to just a handful, I'll be able to feel less stressed and know that things are financially-and-workload manageable again.
Additionally, perhaps I should be able to make all the money I need from just a few projects rather than so many. We'll see. I'm in some ways more bothered about ceasing some of the not-for-profit projects. Maybe I'll try to keep some of them going.
I wish I'd kept this more in mind as I've continued to add projects. 'Weakening grip' is something of which I've always been aware, but I've gotten carried away with enthusiasm and poor 'a drunk in charge of the bar' impulse control.
To be clear, having so many projects remains doable.
The ideas are sound.
The outsourcing could be appropriately undertaken.
And the financial cost of domains and outsourcing shouldn't be a problem.
The main issue is, with my current lack of self-belief, whether continuing is worth the ongoing stress and potential/likely damage to my health. So that's why I'm shifting, away from 'many' to 'few'.
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