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Brad

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How do you focus on finishing your projects?

I've been trying to get back into most of my side-projects, but always find the initial enthusiasm die out pretty quickly.

How do you fight this and keep at a single project over time?

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Matt Eland

Every night I make several hours of progress on something. I usually have several candidate tasks selected and that lets me stay productive even if one resists me that evening because I can swap for energy or flow. Just do this every day and things get finished.

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Chris Dawkins

I try to force myself to do 10-15 mins and usually by that time I'm focused enough on something that it's not very hard to keep going. I also try to fix things whenever I find them instead of leaving them for later because I'm much less likely to pick the project back up if I know the work is going to be frustrating.

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