When the time span for results is long consistency is more important than intensity. To keep myself going I don't push myself too hard. I manage my time and my

When the time span for results is long consistency is more important than intensity. To keep myself going I don't push myself too hard. I manage my time and my productivity well. and I break down tasks into small little chunks and when I complete them I celebrate the win and take a break. I gave myself occasional pep talks, and hype up my work to myself because it's enjoyable, and make extensive use of voice memos to talk about like where I'm up to in my project and sometimes to like reevaluate you know what's my original goal and what's my goal now. Basically I'll kind of keep a development log using voice memos and just like talk out my thoughts if I run into some issues or what I'm doing... I'm not going to be talking all the time but like I'll find it helpful as a way to sort of talk through some opportunity for improvement, some challenge. But the most important thing I think is I always like build something I can use. like I'll try to build the simplest version, like the prototype --you could call it a minimum viable product, right?-- the thing that I want to build and I'll try to build that quickly so then I get like these big feedback loop where like I'm using the thing that I want to build but it's just a simple version of it. So I try to get to the finished product--but not polished at all--as quickly as possible that's usually my first goal. Get to like some proof of concept prototype that I can actually use, that's the first goal in the project and then it's like a series of basically adding features and refining that so you go from like a coarse-grained lower resolution so to speak prototype to a finer grain higher resolution high Fidelity prototype of your original idea and at each stage you have something you can use that you can enjoy and then your enjoyment increases as you continue building stuff. edit: Oh shit, I forgot, I also like to post my work, and partial work to Show HN, I find that can be rewarding for me as well. Even if no one looks at it, posting is sort of like another way to mark the moment, and the milestone, and to celebrate a win. One reason is because I'm saying, 'Here, I have something. It's kind of finished. Take a look at it. It's ready for that.' It's also a great, like um...it sort of focuses the thing's that need to get done, too.