What I have found helpful when feeling paralyzed by options is to create more easily digestible goals. Sure you may be not be able to do everything, but what ca

What I have found helpful when feeling paralyzed by options is to create more easily digestible goals. Sure you may be not be able to do everything, but what can you do now? Even if you don't have much free time, if you're able to hit your bite-sized goals, the feeling of progress is what can help you feel motivated. Let's say you're a developer interested in design, and you have a goal of creating the best-in-class application for whatever, but you're not too knowledgable about the design process. Instead of diving into the deep end of UX patterns, usability studies, tests, validation, platform-specific do's and don'ts etc. — start by picking apart your favorite app, and really dig into what makes the UX great, or what doesn't, think really deeply about the problems they're trying to solve and why. Take lots of notes. Don't have time for that? Let's break the goal down further, and start by thinking about what your top 5 best-in-class apps are and why you think they're great. This can be as high-level or as deep as you want, so long as you're hitting an achievable self-made goal on a regular basis to keep you going.