Retune or Compost? For deciding whether to keep trying or let it go

There is something in your life that is not working. A project, a job, a business, a collaboration, a commitment. You have been circling the same question for weeks or months: do I keep trying to make this work, or is it time to let it go? The circling is its own exhaustion. What you are missing is not willpower. It is a way to tell the difference.

Retune or Compost gives you that way. Not everything that struggles is dying, and not everything that persists deserves to. Some things are instruments that have slipped out of tune and can be brought back. Others have finished, and what they need from you is not another rescue attempt but an honest ending.

The practice moves you through four steps, from personal reflection out to collective ritual, ending in a fork: name one thing to retune, and one to compost. Composting is not disposal. Nothing that mattered is wasted.

What this is: a self-guided discernment practice as a downloadable PDF, from The Art of Unravelling. One sitting, roughly an hour. It works on anything you are weighing: work, projects, ventures, commitments.

It is for you if: you keep asking "should I quit or keep going?" and getting no answer, you suspect the answer might be an ending, and you want to find out with rigour and without cruelty.