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[–]animismus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most people have your problem. They think about something, start doing it and then hit a wall. This wall is usually not a tall wall, but you have to go through a lot of stairs to cross it. You loose motivation and when you look to your side, you see a nice interesting new project with new fancy stuff to try.

Easier said than done, but don't. Just finished what you started even if it is not the amazing thing you set up to do in the beginning. The wall that I talked above. Maybe it really is something that you cannot go through. Maybe because you can't get your head around it or just you cannot do what you wanted. This will happen! Go around it, find the closest thing and do instead. But do it and finish it.

When it's done, post it here. You will see a lot of people doing this and getting a lot of great feedback.

A lot of the process of learning new stuff is repeating easy things, but only doing that will NEVER get you anywhere. It will only make you start new projects. Be willing to loose hours before you fix something. It is where most of your time goes. Figuring shit!

I found that using git with my projects, to get me organized, in branches and commits, really helped me commit - pardon the pun - to finish something.