I was listening to a podcast the other day and they were interviewing an individual who is in charge of telling the company they work for what projects will fail based on a set of parameters they have.
Their job is to be the kill-switch or create a kill-switch for projects so the company doesn’t lose out on their resources.
I thought this was pretty straightforward and I know… I don’t think like this all the time. When I think of how a kill-switch for a project might help me, I can’t help but to think of some creative projects that have hung around for a while in my life as they sucked the main resource I had out of me… time.
Money can be made, Time can’t.
Now — how to establish a kill-switch?
I think this differs for everyone. Financially, a kill-switch can be the budgeted amount for any given category in your life. Creatively, the kill-switch can be when we exceed a set amount of time spent we assign to the endeavor and resources we allocate to it. How about relationships? Is there a kill-switch for that? Maybe the kill-switch is when negativity has entered the relationship and no productive conversation results from it? I don’t know… that last one is complicated but we should think of it.
There’s a kill-switch for this blog. As I type this I’m thinking of it.
If it ever becomes “work” and I stress about creating the next daily post then I will know it’s probably time to hit the kill-switch on this.
For now, I’m forming ideas daily and it’s challenging. Challenging does not mean you should kill the idea, endeavor, relationship. If it wasn’t challenging it wouldn’t be engaging.
Alright, I made my point on this post and that’s the kill-switch for posts.