You will never be done
In the business world, work frequently happens within a project. Success depends on completing all the tasks on time and budget. And a project has a beginning and an end.
At work, we are encouraged to build and reinforce certain "type A" character traits: competitiveness, restlessness, and a strong sense of time urgency. We should tick boxes, close loops, and archive projects.
That's why open-ended or forever ongoing projects are taxing for the people involved. Team morale can drop proportionally as low as the stress can get high.
Luckily, most work projects aren't open-ended. But in life, many things are open-ended, either by nature or because they don't have objective deadlines.
Because we are used to being in "project mode," applying a similar structure to everything is tempting. We conceptualize our health, career, our own business or new product, or our children's education as projects. Projects made of a defined list of tasks to tackle. Projects we will be able to archive at some point.
It's an occupational hazard. The project structure isn't always desirable or suitable, and it is certainly not a universal way to frame every life endeavor.
