For me, I have a lot of interests that are tied to projects. Having an audience in mind can help to keep you on track towards completing a project. Eg: if you'r

For me, I have a lot of interests that are tied to projects. Having an audience in mind can help to keep you on track towards completing a project. Eg: if you're doing graphic design work for a friend or are running an advertising campaign for a small community, there's often a clear end to when it's done. Things like open source project maintenance, on the other hand, can get trickier to cut off, depending on the project and its goals, so I have only chosen those on occasion I often don't return to a project to keep it going in the same way since my projects are meant to be bite-sized. They will satisfy a curiosity or creative need, then I can move onto something else That said, a break can also help to pivot on a previous project in some way. For example, maybe I want to create a library to experiment with HTML5's AudioContext API to try out some software synthesis. Once that's in a ready state, I could consider that complete, then focus on creating a UI to interact with it as a new, separate project Overall, the thing that helps the most is keeping a schedule. It doesn't have to have hard deadlines (at least not all the time), but in keeping projects small enough without getting too simplistic, it helps to keep the projects satisfying without turning into a chore while giving me a sense of accomplishment as well as new things to look forward to