Wow! Thank you Udo for answering so fast! Nice to meet you.
You're definetely right. I completely agree with you. I know that I have a problem with the scope and the "pressure-cooker" haha. Jokes aside, it's true that I should eliminate from my list those things that, after a short period of time, are no motivating me, at least the way they are supposed to. I'll try to move in that direction ;)
About the second part... DEFINETELY TRUE. I know it's my fault, but the only thing I can do is trying to focus my mind in what I'm doing, "eat my own food" and when I'm done, then I'll be able to ask for a big dessert if I want.
It's a pretty simple concept, but I liked it!
Hi! First of all, I'm new here :) My name is Juan Carlos, but everybody knows me as Derrick Roccka. I'm 25.
I've visited hacker news a lot of times, but I never signed up. So, let's get down to business.
I'm a person who has an anxiety disorder. One of my biggest "problems" is that I'm always trying to create. I force myself to come up with new ideas that make me feel motivated. Unafortunately, this has a really bad side. Though I can imagine really interesting things, when I can't acomplish the "eternal to-do lists" that I have in my head, I feel extremely frustrated. I've tried a lot of things to avoid this kind of feeling, but with no success.
I'm grateful to you because your article gave me a few clues about one part of my problems. Obviously, I have a lot of technical limitations, like everyone, and this world spins so fast. Anyway, being alone didn't help me in the past and I'm pretty sure that won't do it in the future. It seems an easy thing to detect, but you really made me think about it.
About motivation... what can I say that you didn't hear before... You're completely right. I'm like a kid (and I'm sure you guys feel the same): when I'm bored, I quit. That's probably wrong, but I really suffer when I have to do something that completely blocks me. And this is a "double-pain" because there's a new thing in my to-do list that I'm not going to complete, once again.
I hope that your article and your project is helping a lot of people like me.