When to use this
Use this when several projects are open at once and none are advancing at a healthy pace.
Signals you may recognise
- You are simultaneously responsible for more than a small number of active projects
- Progress on each has slowed
- Decisions are delayed across all of them
- Context switching cost between them is high
Operational objective
Reduce active projects so remaining ones can advance meaningfully.
Recommended mode
Maintenance
A FlowFixr Today mode that matches this situation.
The first move
List every active project and mark the ones that must genuinely stay open this week.
Step-by-step playbook
- List every active project
- For each, decide: continue, pause explicitly, or close
- Communicate paused work clearly to anyone waiting
- Focus the week around the reduced set
- Reassess only when one closes or ships, not before
What to avoid
- Keeping projects 'open' without progress as a form of hope
- Adding a new project while at capacity
- Treating pause as failure
What good execution looks like
One outcome visibly moved. The rest was deliberately deferred, not silently dropped.
Operational insight
"Every extra active project taxes the ones you already care about."
FlowFixr Today
Adapt this to your current state
This playbook addresses a common situation. FlowFixr Today adapts a daily strategy to how you're feeling and what matters right now.
Related playbooks
- ExecutionFinish Before StartingReduce unfinished work and prevent unnecessary expansion.Open
- Workflow FrictionWorkflow Bottleneck CheckIdentify where work is waiting, blocked, repeatedly handed off, or accumulating.Open
- ExecutionPriority ResetRe-evaluate active work when everything appears urgent.Open