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Personal tips that helped me at least for increasing engagement. - Maintain a fixed number of max projects in parallel: 3 is my number. When I reach that numbe
by jslakro 4y ago
Personal tips that helped me at least for increasing engagement.
- Maintain a fixed number of max projects in parallel: 3 is my number. When I reach that number, any time I'm tempted to desist on working on any of the projects I have ONLY the possibility of retake any of the group. Of course you still can have unfinished projects but a restricted set of real active projects make you to assume a conscious decisions in contrast with a more involuntary notion that let you think you can retake work on an unlimited number of projects anytime you want (something that almost never happen)
- Less time in perfect: common procrastination is about looking for the perfect design, the perfect stack, the perfect name. Making an effort on identifying and reducing the time you take on this kind of activities helps because you necessarily are going to do real progress in projects. This is particular important later when you realize how working and deliverying your projects make you more confident than just "thinking" on them.
- Involve more people: once the motivation is shared is easier to try to get the projects in a more completed state. Specially when that people is out of your area of expertise. Commonly those first hours of focused and greateful work is spend on things you enjoy doing, once you accumulate a couple of boring tasks, your motivation lose traction. Having people out of your speciality sometimes can unblock/help or directly work on that not interesting activities.
- Close the idea factory: sometimes as serial makers/thinkers the born of a new idea is celebrated and usually that means that a new project is comming. Dont let new ideas to replace the older ones. It doesnt mean that you simply stop thinking in those new ideas that suddenly came to your mind, it means that you need to control the response of those stimules. You can write down on a note book, take a couple of minutes to think in that prospect but you cannot allow that new ideas to replace the more mature and already materialized. It's the most difficult step but is a good training for other useful learnings about let things go.