Although I agree with some of the advice, I also remind myself to the exact opposite: Kill your projects. If during a project you learn that it will not work, w

Although I agree with some of the advice, I also remind myself to the exact opposite: Kill your projects. If during a project you learn that it will not work, will not be as good as you hoped it would, or if the circumstances have changed, put it out of its misery. Do not let it hang around nagging for you to finish it. Declare it dead, maybe archive it somewhere far away, clean it out of your sight, and move on. Do not consider a killed project to be a failure. Rather, it was an experiment with a negative result. You learned at least one thing that didn't work, and probably you learned a lot more. It is better to start exciting and ambitious projects, of which some may succeed, than to play it safe and only start working on something simple and boring that you already know will get released.