Persistence. I develop apps for a living and work solo (coding, design everything) and have taken up very large projects. One of the apps I built a few years a

Persistence. I develop apps for a living and work solo (coding, design everything) and have taken up very large projects. One of the apps I built a few years ago was a full blown YouTube client app with a lot more features. The app is now no defunct because of YouTube not allowing background playback and several API restrictions but that app took me over a year to put together. Another app was a sudoku app I built which took several iterations to design and built and improve. One of my most recent apps is a Hacker News client which I built the iOS version for about 3 years ago and am just now finishing the Android version of the app. The iOS one took a good 6 months of work to build and the android one has taken me just over 3 months. I have been able to take over such large projects and crossed the finish line by being persistent. I work solo and from home and basically work every day of the week. Some days it's a lot of hours - 12-16 hours, other days it's maybe just half an hour of fiddling around. As long as I put in at least a few minutes everyday and able to fix a bug or add a small feature or make a small UI design fix, it's a good day. It doesn't have to always be major improvements. It can be as little as adding a new theme color. I learnt this from my past experience in weight lifting. Being persistent everyday makes you achieve major goals over time. This can be applied in other areas of life too - like reading books, weight loss etc. There was a recent post on "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064 https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-just-showing-up-everyday/ https://typesense.org/blog/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of...