What helped me finish some of my projects was also choosing a realistically achievable goal. I have made the mistake of being overly ambitious many times, like

What helped me finish some of my projects was also choosing a realistically achievable goal. I have made the mistake of being overly ambitious many times, like how cool would it be to rewrite this and that as well from scratch, my version will be so much better, etc.. But it is sometimes simply not feasible, and we would be much better off with a less ambitious solution to the problem we have. Last time I successfully applied this was a personal finance tracker, where instead of going at it reinventing the wheel I built my smaller project on top of the Plain Text Accounting ecosystem (beancount specifically).