Set Shorter Projects
Short commitments tend to lead to greater accomplishment than long ones.
It’s not the intention to commit that matters, but whether you follow through with it.
A multi-year effort has a much higher chance at being abandoned than a three-month project does. Further, a three-month project can easily lead to another three-month effort in the same direction, provided the results from the first proved promising.
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