How to maintain motivation through project completion?

On the "juggling multiple unfinished projects" I outgrew this successfully. What it took was to accept accountability. I have a trusted mate that I talk with, and update him on where my current project is at, so I can't just let it slide. We both understand and agree that starting something new can't happen unless we've discussed the previous thing: dropping it is fine, but needing to give a reason first is the difference. This has prevented me from (1/n) assing n things many times, and persisting.

Get users and give them a way to interact with you and each other, such as a Slack workspace for the project. Users help you focus on what matters in terms of bugs and features, and help you maintain a sense of urgency.

During the development of our platform, we set students of our colleague with accounts to prepare their final year projects in machine learning. The platform is supposed to lower the barrier to entry for machine learning, and provide a self service interface for people who are not familiar with tracking, deployment, etc. What better user than students to test that it works?

It's impressive the number of problems even thirty users taking your product for a spin can surface, and after many of them complain about something, it is obvious you need to fix it or add a feature to solve a legitimate problem.

I think whatever you are building needs to have a purpose. If you know it’s just a throwaway project then it will be hard to motivate yourself to finish it. If you build something for people to use, then the goal is to finish it and support it.

I call my mom everyday to tell her my goals for the next day and how I did on my goals yesterday. I think it is a good practice because

- it keeps me accountable

- it helps me to talk to myself, in a more efficient manner

- it is a good thing to talk to your parents. she feels really nice about it

Before this I used to write in a journal, but I have found this to be much more efficient and has several side benefits.

You can also try finding someone close parents/siblings/friend/sibling etc.

Write a journal. Remember, why you started.

>Once I see a clear path to a solution, I lose interest

You have just satisfied your curiosity successfully! That's great outcome too. You learned a lot.

Whatever you do, Have fun, you live only once.

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