Have something exciting and technically trivial that you want to build. Draw it. Build it. My first "programming" projects were a Processing app that fills you

Have something exciting and technically trivial that you want to build. Draw it. Build it. My first "programming" projects were a Processing app that fills your screen with randomly colored dots that increase in size, a website that will send an email after a one-year delay, and a pair of headphones that play back everything that happened 20 minutes ago. These were perfect projects because they were "correct" and presentable when they were done, they have small enough scope that you can spend days perfecting the details, and they were done when they were done. Lower the bar. Incorporate things you already know about. Build it for yourself. Make the objective a thing rather than a skillset.