It’s like knowing a dance. You know the moves but not where every footstep will land. Have faith in yourself and step boldly onto the dancefloor.

Too many awesome projects. It’s a nice problem to have.

I get tempted or lured-in by the latest projects being open sourced and try to tinker with them myself, often abandoning what I have already started 😅

Therefore one of the biggest challenges has always been taking things past the finish line 🏁

unwanted obligations imposed by family and the culture you were born into.

how would you solve problem like this? @darthcoin

Money

I can relate to this but I found a method that works well for me so I will share.

First, you have to get over any idea that whatever you do will be prefect when you start. Obviously we should all strive for greatness but you have to start somewhere and then continually grow a project one step at a time through constant iterations. Understanding this has been huge for me. I just solve through iteration and as long as I never stop, I will never truly fail. I will only learn things along my path to freedom.

To do this, I use a few tools but the tools that work for me will not necessarily work for you but I'm sure you can find something similar that you really connect with. My 2 main tools are AirTable and ToDoist.

ToDoist is a great tool for recurring tasks that I need to do every day, week, month, etc. Things like "Spend 90 mins working on content every day" or "Respond to a thread on Stacker News twice a week". As long as I continually complete these tasks, eventually, I will have completed something greater.

AirTable is where I put ideas into a list as well but I don't have a set date or time to achieve them and they aren't recurring either. To prevent myself from getting distracted or taking on too many projects, I just add yet another line item to one of my many AirTables and when it is time to work on that, I will break it down into smaller steps in ToDoist to achieve that goal.

Larger ideas are for AirTable like "Launch Online Store" or "Contact bitcoin merch companies about resale opportunities" or "Publish 1,000 articles", etc. When I complete one task, I break the next one down into smaller bites that I can achieve on a regular basis. If I work on content for 90+ minutes a day, eventually I will publish an article. If I keep publishing articles, I will eventually have published 1,000 articles.

Perhaps you can apply this basic structure to your own life and prevent too many distractions. Keep your routine tasks achievable but also challenging enough that when you complete them, you feel a sense of accomplishment.

When I focus on one thing at a time, I find myself completing much more and feeling a lot better about it as well as motivating me to keep going.

I hope this helps, bro. Best of luck on your project.

Hiring. I need to hire. I take on too much stuff and don't distribute responsibility very well.

Do you have name? I can make you a simple logo for 200k or full design guidelines for 1M :)

Fear. Fear of failure… maybe fear of success.

Nb: If you are facing a huge task try breaking it into its constituent parts and micro tasks. The mental process of writing these steps down is an excellent way to start. How do you eat an elephant? One mouthful at a time…

You ask the best questions.

Parenting for me.

I have one toddler and one baby, and boy do they suck all the time and energy out of me. I have been finding parenting extremely tough. I have no support. It’s just me and my wife looking after them, so I feel imprisoned in a cell that is admittedly my own making.

I realise that I no longer can go the things that rejuvenate me - a night out with friends, travelling or just time alone with myself. But unfortunately, I don’t enjoy parenting at all. How my toddler asks questions incessantly during dinner, how I must spend all my weekend with him at various playgrounds, how I must rock my baby girl to sleep in the wee hours of the morning. I don’t regret parenting but these days, I sigh a lot. I wish I had known just how unpalatable and unjoyful the whole business of parenting is.

I find that parenting holds me back because I wake up in the morning, nursing a slight headache rather than feeling recharged to conquer the day. I also don’t have the time to work on personal projects. Sometimes you need that few hours of white space so that you can figure things out and get into the flow and generally feel a sense of accomplishment. Parenting has robbed me of that.

Thanks for reading my rant haha

Probably spending too much time on nostr or reading SN comments

ask for help

Just do it my fren... the first step will always lead you to the next... be confident, you can do it

Not knowing where to start

Myself. I'm in a relatively comfortable situation, but I want to branch out. Problem is, I could go down a number of possible directions and I'm having trouble deciding. Good problem to have, but I also can't just continue to stew

Nothing, push to be great and you will be great! Being here on Stacker News means you know what it takes to be great, so be it!

Fear of another failure once again.

I need to find a higher paying job, or long term side gig

With the extra income i'd be able to able to better afford a baby and stack a few more sats

Wish me luck freaks

Divide the big project into very small goals.

Plan with a calendar, for example divide the project time by weeks.

Celebrate achieving a goal.

And go for it! piano piano si va lontano

No or poor leadership?

Few bucks to finish the automated trading bot software! 😁

One at the time. Select the most important for you and start with those ones, no matter what others say. Feel your first instinct. Is always the good one.

Money, time, family commitments, belief, & the ability to hone down to 1 idea & pursue that with everything

The only thing that holds me back is my mind. But only if I believe in ;)

A parasitic government that steals my life energy through taxation.