I’ve been trying to work on Keyed In and a couple of other personal projects for almost a year now, with little to no progress.
Why not? Because I’m my most understanding client. I always understand that my other clients are more, much more important than I am because they’re bringing in the cash now, as opposed to investing heavily on the project now and (hopefully) reaping the benefits a few months down the line.
It hasn’t been a great year, financially. What with having to support my family, I just could not find enough time (or no time) to work on my own projects when all I could think about was where the next month’s payments are gonna come from. And me, as my own client, understood and let it go. Which brings us to today, probably more than a year after I started to form the code for keyed in, with nothing to show for it but a blank placeholder.
It is tough, I’ll tell you that, to not put your other work before personal projects. And I still don’t know whether I’ll be able to put aside time for Keyed In in next fortnight or so. Which makes me so angry with myself at neglecting something I really wanted to work on, but on the other hand, I do understand why I had to do that.
Lesson learnt : be harsh with yourself when it comes to your own time-table. Never compromise on your personal projects, and work on them, even if it is but a line of code a day.