• keropoktasen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    I have hundreds of eBooks that I abandoned after reading just a few pages, but still keeping them “just in case”.

  • Good Girl [she/they]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Literally me rn… I was finishing up (and am still working on) a new keyboard and I got a sudden inspiration and I’m now designing a 2nd keyboard while still finishing up the first.

  • Jtskywalker@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Finish your current project

    “What project?” I say, as I start a third project after getting bored with the second project and completely forgetting that the first project ever existed.

    • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      That’s why this meme sounds unrealistic to me. If you would do it like this, you would actually finish your projects. But what happens to me at least is that there is some step overwhelming me and blocking me from continuing a project. So I start new projects that don’t seem overwhelming at first, but obviously do get difficult at some point. So then I’m stuck there too and I venture on to new projects. The only way to actually finish anything is if there is some accountability (someone is pushing me to do it) or if I get help solving an overwhelming step. But that can just happen randomly or never at all. So that’s why I end up with millions of unfinished projects that make me feel bad about myself.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      The red pill probably rolled under something, we should probably take another blue pill to make sure we start the project of looking for the red pill

  • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    I struggle with that too but honestly, it gets a lot easier if you just cut down on the size of your projects, so having several of them at once isn’t overly ambitious.

    That, and practice a little bit of discipline when task switching, i.e. always leave things in a state where you can easily pick them up again and remember where you were.

    As I’m getting better at it, I find that there’s usually always something I can make progress on, even if it’s just a little before I stash it away again. But progress is progress, no matter how small, and it does end up adding up by the end of a week and then I don’t feel as useless and defeated as I used to.

    • yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      hAvE yOu TrIeD bReAkInG iT dOwN iNtO mAnAgEaBlE pIeCeS aNd SoMe DiScIpLiNe

      Yes. Yes I did. I took both pills, ground them up to very manageable pieces, took a straw and just very disciplined snorted everything up.

      And then I asked for more pills.