I do practice programming, but I feel like the practice is not deliberate. Most of the time I find myself lost in whatever side project I have going on rather t

I do practice programming, but I feel like the practice is not deliberate. Most of the time I find myself lost in whatever side project I have going on rather than being mindful about the improvement of my craft. As stated in the article, it is tough to keep up with practice due to life changing. I now have to take much better care of myself than I used to to be present with my family. This takes time away that I used to spend learning. Something I've found tough at this point in my career 10 years in is trying to practice skills that I don't care as much about but can be necessary at times. I have many friends in my area that are very skilled at frontend development. I am not. I will reach for the first template library I can find to get a frontend built. I wish that I could take the time to properly sit down and learn HTML/CSS/JS but every time I do I get some weird focus block. It's almost as if my brain shuts down and refuses to take that information in. Maybe because I know that my time is limited? I have to set really strict schedules with myself to get any kind of practice in. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. Oh well. I'd love to start automating more common tasks for myself.