Stay Focused & Stay Happy

Hi guys,

I can see myself going back down a dark whole.

How do you guys stay focused on one project? I'm a web developer and have had the aim to leave my job and work for myself for over a year, I have a portfolio of sites but I'm not confident enough to convert someone to a customer over the phone.

Every day I have ideas come into my head which are pretty clever (I write 70% of them down) but the people I surround myself with just done see the potential that I see. This causes me to start a project, see the competition, lose motivation and money.

I feel like working 9-5 is my problem, by the time I'm done at work I'm too depressed and tired to go home and put my heart and soul into projects. I have trouble sleeping and only get around 4-6 hours sleep its a very vicious cycle.

Anyone similar out there?

Do you have any hobbies you enjoy?
Do you go to the gym?
Is your diet healthy?

If you answered no to all of these questions you need to change something in your life, and fast.
If you don't, you will fall into an endless cycle of depression and self-hate.
Trust me bud, I've been there.

i have legit the same profile than you,

i'm a dev stuck into the 9 to 5 life, finished a projet and i didnt even launched it,

yo lemon what are your project ?

AverageJackass said:

Do you have any hobbies you enjoy?
Do you go to the gym?
Is your diet healthy?

If you answered no to all of these questions you need to change something in your life, and fast.
If you don't, you will fall into an endless cycle of depression and self-hate.
Trust me bud, I've been there.

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I have many hobbies I just don't have the time, effort or motivation to do any of them
I did enjoy going to the gym up until 3 months ago, I quit because I kept getting sick from being there. Working on getting a home gym setup.
My diet is pretty healthy but I don't enjoy eating at the minute, this dropped since I stopped going to the gym.

DeadInside said:

i have legit the same profile than you,

i'm a dev stuck into the 9 to 5 life, finished a projet and i didnt even launched it,

yo lemon what are your project ?

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Started many but here are some
- Car cleaning business (Quit because there was little profit)
- Food prep & fitness plan business (Quit because there are 9999 alternatives out there)
- Vehicle immobilizer (Ongoing, have a prototype and app in development however 4-5 competitors have beat me to it)
- POD environmental store (Ongoing, waiting to start advertising)
- Web Developer Freelance (Ongoing, fixing my portfolio to contact some people)
- Some small blogs to learn some SEO (Ongoing, attempting rank & rent model)

Seeing a bit of my lifestyle here. Working 8 - 5 and gets loads of ideas each day making it hard to be consistent in one.
But towards the tail end of 2019, I was able to keep going with one even as I do other projects alongside.
I will try and start gym, and any other solutions I can get from this thread.