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When the project is both confusing and demanding, how do you find the personal energy to get from start to finish?

Nil desperandum. (Never despair.)

— Horace

This past week I powered through a very taxing financial project fraught with a multiplicity of confusing tasks, much personal angst and boat-loads of self-doubt and recriminations.  As I transitioned from one challenging task to the next I had to fight the urge to flee, to bug-out, to give up, to throw in the towel…

I knew from past experience that if I just kept going all would eventually come together and make sense.  So I nursed myself through the “ordeal” with many mini-breaks along the way.  My mantra went something like this: Continue reading » Almost There – Don’t Quit Now