For me, due to life circumstances of severe chronic pain, until relatively recently my life and projects were mostly on hold.
To cope with my projects "dying" 10+ years ago from no longer being able to work on them, aside from the grief of going through my entrepreneurial baby "dying" - the main project I was working on and putting all of my effort on, and was going well - I began to tell myself that things were simply on hold, on the backburner, and I will revisit them again in the future.
My ideas and understanding and strategy since evolved, and so even though I wasn't actively working on projects - they and myself were still evolving.
For me, due to life circumstances of severe chronic pain, until relatively recently my life and projects were mostly on hold.
To cope with my projects "dying" 10+ years ago from no longer being able to work on them, aside from the grief of going through my entrepreneurial baby "dying" - the main project I was working on and putting all of my effort on, and was going well - I began to tell myself that things were simply on hold, on the backburner, and I will revisit them again in the future.
My ideas and understanding and strategy since evolved, and so even though I wasn't actively working on projects - they and myself were still evolving.