Like others were saying just try to organize your project into atomic independent tasks that you can finish in a day or two, keep doing that consistently day after day and results will compound. Talking from personal experience.
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#32In my opinion there’s only one way to deal with this - let’s say - procrastination. The problem is that you are at mercy of your feelings when you are supposed to sit down and actually do the tasks that you set yourself up for. Feelings of doubt and fear of not being good enough may kick in and your brain will come up with all kinds of ideas to release you from the situation. For me, the following works: 1. Craft a d…
Pretty neat, I came to the same conclusions and working on something similar here: https://getartemis.app
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#33Have you tried to limit the scope of the projects?
I think this is the #1 way to finish.
Once "finished", you can then iterate by adding features.
Time management techniques seem overrated to me for personal projects.