When possible, choose projects that can’t grow.
What? Why choose projects that can’t grow?
I’m wrapping up one of my favorite musical projects of the year, the Rockford HS Choir Cabaret. It’s fantastic, and it can’t grow. The number of seats we can include is fixed, the number of acts we can feature is pretty much fixed, the duration is fixed.
If your project can’t grow, here are some things you can focus on instead of growth:
- Excellence. You can spend your energy making the project better.
- Creativity. You can work on making the project more creative.
- Cohesive. You can make the project work as part of a series of projects, without worrying that it’ll take more and more energy to maintain.
- Sustainable. Growing projects eventually become so big that you’ll have to give up other things to keep doing them. Non-growing projects are sustainable.
Every new project starts as a Growing Project. But ideally, they are temporarily growing, and will settle into a project you can keep doing, without the growth.