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

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Milan Radojević

Motivation will get you only so far, it might work for some people but not for most.

What will work

  • 10 Mins Daily

    • Sitting down every day for at least 10 minutes and doing whether you like it or not (don't wait to feel like doing it)
  • Prioritize

    • choose which projects you want to see get finished, if you're doing 10-60 mins daily you can't really do more than one

Some more tips

  • List of stuff to implement/fix

    • Have a list of stuff you have to do (implement feature X, fix Y in situation Z) and stick to it
    • I remember myself wasting sometimes even up to 3 hour on just the colors or the padding or some other silly stuff like that (related: Bike Shed Effect)
  • Just start

    • Often just starting is what's the problem, once you begin you can't stop
  • But what to start

    • A barrier to starting is often not knowing what exactly to start with (related: Choice paralysis, also lacking a clear plan), that why I recommend having the list of what to to implement/fix
  • Stop on time

    • Stop while it's still interesting, if you stop on something that's hard problematic you might procrastinate on continuing the work

One more thing

Of course these are all things that worked for me, so you should certainly experiment to see what works for you!