Status Updates From Quit: The Power of Knowing ...

The other thing she began talking about is a kill list. Similar to the conversation about boundaries I had in my negotiations class. Before starting a project, create a clear set of items or things you could learn that would cause you to stop with what you are doing. This list allows you to stay clear headed about the direction and when to quit.

Recently, I have read about the Monkey and the pedestal. Do not give yourself a sense of false progress by focusing on the easy stuff (the pedestals), instead focus on the monkey (the difficult bottlenecks). Pedestals create a sense of false progress.