From personal experience, the best thing to do was to figure out why I felt like I want to create all these side-projects.
Taking hard and honest approach helped me kill off some decent ideas that would be very hard to achieve on my own, so there was no real point getting attached to them.
For me, the main two reasons are wanting to work on something fun and cool, that I can show off to my mates, and working with new tech to actually learn new skills, which sometimes is hard to do at work, when you can't really trial-and-error your way in long term, but need that experience from somewhere. Also, I've pretty much killed off any "this would make so much money" type ideas - if it's not something I have interest in, it's not worth doing or even considering.
So, what worked for me, try to figure out why you feel like it, there should be underlining reason, once you know that, should be easier to "scratch the itch" with targeted approach.
PS. I also found it's easier to go to sleep super-early and wake up at 5am to put in few hours to side-project with fresh head before work, than try to work on things after work ;)
This rings very true to me. When I feel like I'm making progress on something that's important to me, my mind will stop looking for cool new ideas to work on. When I was younger, I loved the ideas and developing them. But I never did anything with them. Now I make lots of progress, I'm happier with that, and my mind quiets down.
If I've got a million ideas before bed, it's probably an indication that something is blocked in my life or something is not being taken care of. If I just take care of it (even if it takes 3 hours and cuts into my sleep), I sleep better. Don't try to shut up your mind. Listen to yourself and trust that there's a good reason. You just need to introspect to see what's going on. Ask yourself guiding questions.
Very often my ideas and thinking will get ahead of my execution. I have a TODO list 1000 items long and I'm not checking them off fast enough to reduce the list. That means something is wrong and I need to figure out a new plan.
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From personal experience, the best thing to do was to figure out why I felt like I want to create all these side-projects.
Taking hard and honest approach helped me kill off some decent ideas that would be very hard to achieve on my own, so there was no real point getting attached to them.
For me, the main two reasons are wanting to work on something fun and cool, that I can show off to my mates, and working with new tech to actually learn new skills, which sometimes is hard to do at work, when you can't really trial-and-error your way in long term, but need that experience from somewhere. Also, I've pretty much killed off any "this would make so much money" type ideas - if it's not something I have interest in, it's not worth doing or even considering.
So, what worked for me, try to figure out why you feel like it, there should be underlining reason, once you know that, should be easier to "scratch the itch" with targeted approach.
PS. I also found it's easier to go to sleep super-early and wake up at 5am to put in few hours to side-project with fresh head before work, than try to work on things after work ;)
This rings very true to me. When I feel like I'm making progress on something that's important to me, my mind will stop looking for cool new ideas to work on. When I was younger, I loved the ideas and developing them. But I never did anything with them. Now I make lots of progress, I'm happier with that, and my mind quiets down.
If I've got a million ideas before bed, it's probably an indication that something is blocked in my life or something is not being taken care of. If I just take care of it (even if it takes 3 hours and cuts into my sleep), I sleep better. Don't try to shut up your mind. Listen to yourself and trust that there's a good reason. You just need to introspect to see what's going on. Ask yourself guiding questions.
Very often my ideas and thinking will get ahead of my execution. I have a TODO list 1000 items long and I'm not checking them off fast enough to reduce the list. That means something is wrong and I need to figure out a new plan.