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Turnaround.
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'The state I'm in.'
UPDATE… a day or so later.
I welcome the almost pain-free relief. It feels so good, light.
Regret? Sure. Absolutely.
I'm starting to wonder whether maybe I over-reacted in deciding to dump projects. Perhaps I'm just tired and have had a wobble. I honestly don't know.
But, as formal termination occurs when renewals become due during the coming year, I've time to change my mind again and restore some projects should I consider that to be appropriate—I'm loathe to write-off such a considerable amount of work.
For now though, I've re-established some sanity to what I'm doing. Things become mentally manageable again. I won't end-up crouched in the corner, gently rocking and silently mumbling to myself.
It's perhaps ironic that all of this is happening as I'm coming to the end of a relatively intense period of juggling multiple projects, after which my workload would lighten. But I don't want to risk future problems.
In going forward, I'm yet to decide on whether I reduce the amount of hours I work or simply reallocate them among fewer projects. The former would be nice, in accord with my original intent—from which, during the extended period in which I've tried to ease-myself-back into business, I've taken 'no need too hurry, g' breaks. Having passed retirement age, there's no rush for me to get back into things.
As I've said, the multiple-project strategy was and is fine. I don't consider it to be a colossally dumb idea. The problem is me, I'm what's failed… and a considerable part of the reason for that is stuff in my personal life—had that been different, I would likely have carried on with so many projects; and more likely is that I'd not have felt the need to remain so withdrawn, delaying launch of projects.
And I'm sure that if 'all' I have to do was come up with ideas and create content, I'd happily keep them all and continue to add more. But I don't have this luxury, because I have to also build a business around all of this, which means extra tasks… the mindset for which—launching and operating—is very different, 'singer rather than songwriter'.
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