Too Many Projects!
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m the type of person who will come up with an idea and fling myself into a project with tons of enthusiasm, but then I’ll come up with another idea and do the same thing, leaving my original project to wither away. I do this all the time and the end result is that I rarely get one site up and into what I would consider a finished state.
If I’m honest then it’s probably after the initial excitement about the idea dies down, or when it gets to the “boring” bits that I move on from a project. I guess I need to learn how to grit my teeth and just get on with it when I start to get this feeling.
This really does frustrate me as there are loads of ideas which I’d originally had high hopes for that I’ve just left for dead in the past. I think I need to stop this cycle now!
What I’m going to do is to pick two projects (maybe three… we’ll see) and only work on those until they are complete. Anything else that I currently have in my list, or any new ideas I come up with, can go into a queue and be worked on once one of those 2-3 slots is free’d up. Hopefully this will mean I can turn out sites much quicker, and more importantly that they will actually be complete, working sites. I’m hoping it will also help me stay focused rather than have a million things on the go.
For now the sites I want to work on are my real estate niche site, an IT related niche site and possibly, if I can squeeze it in, a mashup site that I am working on with a friend. There is enough to do on all of these to keep me going, and if I stick to only these then I think I will start seeing some good progress over the next few weeks or so.
Are you like me with many projects on the go, or do you tend to see each one through before starting on the next?
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September 24th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
That is totally how it’s been for me since I started doing things online. A million “great” ideas and wanting to start them all at once - then finding bits that are boring/pain in my butt and then just slacking off till something else comes along. It’s like having attention deficit disorder!
I’ve been motoring along with a list - and for the most part it helps. But I hate to say it my list just seems to get longer and longer… lol.
Good luck with your list
September 24th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
That’s it exactly! Well I have my main projects to get on with now and I will focus most of my attention there, but even today I’ve seen a few of things that I really want to try out… now! I guess there is still a little room to do some stuff outside of my main 2 or 3 sites…
I’ll see how it pans out in the next couple of weeks, it would be good to get at least one site in a good position by then.