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Discussion on: How do you stay motivated for the entirety of your project?

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Elizabeth Schafer •

I have the same problem, and it's a constant struggle for me. Here are some things I've tried that have at least worked temporarily:

  • pomodoro technique
  • bullet journal: specifically keeping a super simple daily log of whatever I had to do or wanted to remember, and migrating tasks at the end of the month
  • asking for tighter deadlines to add some pressure
  • writing down a single task I want to finish for the day
  • listening to specific music or sitting in a specific place to help trigger work mode
  • making a point to move and work somewhere else if I'm not getting anything done
  • pair programming, or at least sitting in the same room as other developers to try to stay on task
  • RescueTime, both to track how productive I am, and to block distracting websites