Seven Projects.
March 7th, 2007 | by john |Hobbies and epiphanies lead me to project ideas. Over the past two years, I have counted that I've actually started working on seven different projects. So far, one of them has launched, one failed (or I quit on it long before failure due to lack of time) after a year, and the other five are currently in a holding pattern over my head. On average, I have found that I complete about 25% of the project before I lose interest. Sometimes, it is 85% before I don't have the will to finish and launch it.
Thankfully, this was/is not an issue for school work and work work. Things where the responsibility of the work is not voluntary (technically assigned to me) or have a hard due date – I put a lot of effort into finishing it. On the other hand, if the project was my idea; therefore, do not have anyone pushing me to do the work or I know there is no real date, it will be a long time before I finish.
I have found remnants of one of my projects that I have started to think about ten months ago. It's about 15% completed and found myself interested in it. Chances are, I will get bored of this in a few months. If so, I am going to try to continue on with other projects in a round-robin fashion. Theoretically, this means that at the end of this process (if there is light at the end of the tunnel of my ambition), I will end up with five different completed and ready-to-launch projects.
Anyway, if anyone else finds that you have similar issues, I am very open to suggestions. Thanks.
