Making Time for Side Projects
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Making Time for Side Projects
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#2I'm on board with all his points except for "Stop doing shit you hate." Lovely idea, but completely unrealistic.
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#3It seems as simple as make time for yourself and your ideas and your actions, then actually use that time with intention and focus.
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#4I think the main issue on side projects is managing your own expectations. You have to be realistic and think that as the name implies is something you do on the side and it's not your main priority.
So try to work on it as much as you can but don't blame yourself if you can't work on it for a day or a few days.
We all have lives and have stuff to do that are more important then side projects otherwise they wouldn't be called that way.
I'm devoting a single our per day on an android app and i'm having a great progress, i'm doing a tiny feature every day. And that's fine, it's done when it's done, i'm the one doing it and managing so there's absolutely no problem.
If you start looking at the side project in a very serious way, you'll end up with guilt , frustration and remorse and that just kills the fun out of it.
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#5I'm on board with all his points except for "Stop doing shit you hate." Lovely idea, but completely unrealistic.
Depends how wealthy you are I guess. If you have a billion dollars, I doubt you need to do ANYTHING you don't like.
As your money scales down, you may have to do a few more things you hate ;)
However I think it might be easier to find joy in things you hate vs just hating them :)
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#6I wonder how many hours that would have otherwise been productive have been spent reading about productivity.
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#7I wonder how many hours that would have otherwise been productive have been spent reading about productivity.
Thats exactly what i thought when i stopped reading anything like that. Most entrepreneurs will give you huge lists of must reads. I rather code on my projects.
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#8I'm on board with all his points except for "Stop doing shit you hate." Lovely idea, but completely unrealistic.
I quit my job, moved to a country where i can life of the money i have and work exclusively on my side projects while outsourcing stuff i dont like.
I mean, its not so far catched if you have no kids & wife.
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#9I'm on board with all his points except for "Stop doing shit you hate." Lovely idea, but completely unrealistic.
Depends how wealthy you are I guess. If you have a billion dollars, I doubt you need to do ANYTHING you don't like. As your money scales down, you may have to do a few more things you hate ;) However I think it might be easier to find joy in things you hate vs just hating them :)
> it might be easier to find joy in things you hate
That is arguably the key to happiness :)
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#10I think the main issue on side projects is managing your own expectations. You have to be realistic and think that as the name implies is something you do on the side and it's not your main priority. So try to work on it as much as you can but don't blame yourself if you can't work on it for a day or a few days. We all have lives and have stuff to do that are more important then side projects otherwise they wouldn't…
That's definitely something to keep in mind. Thanks for the reminder :)
It's so easy to focus on getting shit done, to the exclusion of treating yourself well sometimes. I think I need to plan a follow-up.