I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
Staying the course when working a project is all down to one thing... The ability to deploy self-awareness at all stages.
Being self-aware of why you chose that as your project (Was it money? Was it to make an impressive portfolio piece? Or is it something you're truly passionate about?)
Being self-aware of your capacity to get a certain amount of work done - if you go at an unsustainable pace, you're going to experience burnout early and this starts off a chain reaction which makes motivation almost impossible.
Being self-aware of what you're getting yourself into - do you know the full requirements of the project will be, at a high level? It's easy to get excited and lock our sights on the cool thing we can build that might make us some money, but as the novelty wears off, we begin to realize that there are a lot of "extra responsibilities and side tasks" which require perhaps either more expertise or for us to do something we simply won't enjoy doing. Seeing these upfront allows us to plan, delegate if possible or make a decision not to follow through with that project.
And if you aren't able to stay the course on your current project - please take this advice when thinking about what to choose next: ask yourself what you're truly passionate about, and try and build something centered around that passion.
You'll be 10x more likely to see it to completion because you'll wake up excited to do the next piece of work every day - and you won't have to push yourself. Instead, the fire of your passion will pull you towards the end goal. "Pull" motivation is what gives you energy, rather than you needing to try and create it, which most people will inevitably fail to do.
We really hope this is helpful - I think you've given us an idea for our next blog post, so thank you so much for the opportunity to help out! We hope you can stick to what you're doing or find something you enjoy so much that you can't help but finish it!
After reading your comment I'm pretty certain that personally, I need to work on being self-aware of the project's requirements. I'll start off by sketching a high-level requirements document!
I definitely need to maintain a more stable pace as well.
I'm the CTO of international video agency Wooshii and I run an educational media brand called Skill Pathway. I also occasionally chat to people on my podcast, The Learning Developers Podcast.
We're so glad we managed to flag those things up for you! Hopefully once you audit those things, you'll find it much easier to maintain consistent levels of motivation.
We've also released our blog post - inspired completely by your question. Thanks once again for the opportunity to help out - check out the post here if you're at all interested, as we go deeper on the original advice we gave.
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Staying the course when working a project is all down to one thing... The ability to deploy self-awareness at all stages.
And if you aren't able to stay the course on your current project - please take this advice when thinking about what to choose next: ask yourself what you're truly passionate about, and try and build something centered around that passion.
You'll be 10x more likely to see it to completion because you'll wake up excited to do the next piece of work every day - and you won't have to push yourself. Instead, the fire of your passion will pull you towards the end goal. "Pull" motivation is what gives you energy, rather than you needing to try and create it, which most people will inevitably fail to do.
We really hope this is helpful - I think you've given us an idea for our next blog post, so thank you so much for the opportunity to help out! We hope you can stick to what you're doing or find something you enjoy so much that you can't help but finish it!
After reading your comment I'm pretty certain that personally, I need to work on being self-aware of the project's requirements. I'll start off by sketching a high-level requirements document!
I definitely need to maintain a more stable pace as well.
I'm really looking forward to that blog post!
Cheers!
We're so glad we managed to flag those things up for you! Hopefully once you audit those things, you'll find it much easier to maintain consistent levels of motivation.
We've also released our blog post - inspired completely by your question. Thanks once again for the opportunity to help out - check out the post here if you're at all interested, as we go deeper on the original advice we gave.