I've found that having a plan helps a lot. One of the problems with projects is that without a plan you have no way to know what you are interested in building.

I've found that having a plan helps a lot. One of the problems with projects is that without a plan you have no way to know what you are interested in building. There's also no way to determine if you are making progress so you give up. A plan solves those issues. A quick five or ten minute plan will do. The other issue is that you need to solve, "the give up problem." Everyone will eventually give up on all projects. You want to forestall that by working as fast as possible to finish your project. You are literally racing against the give up point. You want to do that by hitting goals in your project as fast as possible. I can tell you that if you are making progress you are less likely to give-up. In the past I was more leisure about my projects. I can get to it tomorrow, I used to say. The problem with that is that if you do that too much eventually you'll just get bored and give up. You don't have to kill yourself but you do have to make progress at a frisk pace.