I've often felt a disconnect with how I feel about starting and stopping on commitments. There is value in starting a project with a goal to complete it, and stick to it all the way to end. But there's also value in stopping if it gets to be too much.
The tension (Yin and Yang balance everything) between those has always bothered me.
It occurs to me today that the negative connotation of stopping a previous commitment only exists when you slide out of your commitment without making a conscious/definitive decision to do so.
If you decide to start, and then later decide to stop - no problem.
But if you decide to start, then peter off - you've simply not met your commitments.
The problem lies in the lack of a conscious decision to start/stop, not the starting or stopping.
#toolong
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