DM Good morning. Any thoughts as to how to decide when you are done? When you can or should do no more? The effort is over, whether good, bad, succeed, fail or all of these? Good morning, Sciart. That question has a few distinct layers worth separating before collapsing them — because "done" can mean very different things depending on which frame you're operating in. There's exhaustion-done  — where the system (you, the project, the relationship) has simply run out of fuel or

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