Very well said and I am amazed to see that a lot of us fail to realize this key thing about life. If you don't have goals of some sort, it becomes a lot harder to do anything with a purpose. I am not saying everyone needs to have some crazy goals but you need to ask yourself: where do I see myself in next 2,5,7,10 years and you work your way through it then.
Starting a side project also should follow this. Yes we all have lot of ideas that are similar, nothing new. We all struggle to focus on that ONE thing to start with. The reason is because we are fearful. We fear what if that ONE thing fails since we have so many ideas. We analyze and paralyze. Result is: we do nothing.
Ok so lets say you have your 2,5 years goal set. Now lets say multiple ideas could take you there in theory (since you don't know for sure without trying execeution). In that case, give yourself few days.
Day 1: Make a list of all your best ideas that you want to execute on.
Day 2: You have a gun to your head. Take 1 idea off that list. Only one. leave the rest. Once you discard the idea, you can not add it back to the list.
Day 3-n: Repeat Day 2 until you are left with that 1 idea.
Final day: execute, execute, execute. No remorse. No guilt on dropping other ideas.
Very well said and I am amazed to see that a lot of us fail to realize this key thing about life. If you don't have goals of some sort, it becomes a lot harder to do anything with a purpose. I am not saying everyone needs to have some crazy goals but you need to ask yourself: where do I see myself in next 2,5,7,10 years and you work your way through it then.
Starting a side project also should follow this. Yes we all have lot of ideas that are similar, nothing new. We all struggle to focus on that ONE thing to start with. The reason is because we are fearful. We fear what if that ONE thing fails since we have so many ideas. We analyze and paralyze. Result is: we do nothing.
Ok so lets say you have your 2,5 years goal set. Now lets say multiple ideas could take you there in theory (since you don't know for sure without trying execeution). In that case, give yourself few days.
Day 1: Make a list of all your best ideas that you want to execute on.
Day 2: You have a gun to your head. Take 1 idea off that list. Only one. leave the rest. Once you discard the idea, you can not add it back to the list.
Day 3-n: Repeat Day 2 until you are left with that 1 idea.
Final day: execute, execute, execute. No remorse. No guilt on dropping other ideas.