I used to work 30 minutes every morning on side projects. I did it for 2-3 years. It wasn't hard to get focus as long as I did it every day. It worked as long a

I used to work 30 minutes every morning on side projects. I did it for 2-3 years. It wasn't hard to get focus as long as I did it every day. It worked as long as I did it every day. Reserving a slot of time for working allowed me to not feel guilty of watching tv, going out... I felt good about having done what I wanted and knew there would be 30 minutes again the next day. Here are a few things that helped me : - Keeping a todo list on a paper under my keyboard to start quickly. - Reserve larger things that takes time like refactoring for the week-end (2-3 hours ). - I tried to use the same technologies I used at work to avoid learning time. - I asked my wife to avoid asking me things at that time