Back on IH after a couple of months
Hi everyone. I've learnt a great deal of things from the IH community. A couple of months back, I decided to stay off the platform because I was overwhelmed with ideas. This is a truly great place to find like minded individuals, but I decided to avoid mental burnout. I've since then decided to tame my monkey mind first. My mind tends to race from one shiny object to another. I am a bit ashamed of the domains I purchased because I had a great idea and now I don't find the enthusiasm to work on it. I've done this with probably 6-7 ideas and their domains. I started with Amazon affiliate, dropshipping, print on demand but none of them have taken off because I personally burned out after tons of research.
My main objective here is to quit my 9-5 and to work for myself rather than a corporation and to be there for my family rather than spend 12 hours outside the house. I want to enrich people's lives and help them rather than try to get rich quick. Hopefully, I can find some inspiration here to combat my lack of motivation. My first step is to calm my monkey mind and shiny object syndrome :)
Hey, welcome back.
How can we help you move forward?
Hi. Right now I'm focusing on generating ideas on paper first before I move to creating it on the computer.
You're not alone! My domain portfolio is an embarrassing collection of half-finished projects that I never got over the line. I've easily got 20 or more.
I tend to aim too high at first and then get frustrated at my lack of progress. Eventually procrastination wins one day, then the next, and then it's been 4 months without any progress and the shame kicks in.
This time I'm trying to focus on iteration and incremental improvements.
I enjoyed the popular book The Obstacle is the way. It is an easy and enjoyable read.
The TLDR; keep working towards your goals. It'll be hard, but that's OK and to be expected. You've got this.
I find keeping momentum is key to maintaining motivation. Those little hits of dopamine when I get a feature working drive me to start the next one.
That's a very noble goal. Personally, it's what give me the 90% of my motivation.
I try to ask myself: what do I really like to do? I like photography, computing, writing. Every project I have are around these core ideas. That's why I work on them, days after days after days.
For my ideas, I have an "idea system" I speak about briefly here. I put every ideas I have in there, and I don't take action on them. After a couple of days, I come back to them, delete the one I don't find very useful, reorganize them, and take action only if many ideas are connected together to form... a project.
From there, I still don't take action. I look around if people could be interested.
Then, if it solves problems people (or I) have, I begin to create Trello tickets, and see how I could create something solid without going crazy by putting too much on my shoulders.
Then, finally, I plan some time for the project, as often as I can. I don't do more than one hour a day because, personally, I like to do other stuff, and my mind becomes blurry when I work too much on one idea. But it's personal, as I said; experiment and find what works for you.
Hope it helps!
Thanks for the advice. I will check out the URL you mentioned. I do have many ideas that fizzle out in a couple of weeks so it will be useful to keep note of it and visit it after a while to see if it is still valid.