I’ve got so many projects that it will take me a great deal of time to list them all. It is always exciting to start something new if you know what I mean. However, how do you find time to work on all of your projects and still enjoying plenty of other activities? This question has been occupying my thoughts for some time now but I think I pinned a solution.

So how do you find time? It is simple:

  1. Make sure that you have clear goals! You may have pretty big goals. This is good! If they are pretty big, split them up to smaller ones. It is easier to work in smaller steps and it helps you keeping focus.
  2. Dedicate specific day and time for your project. Make sure that you are not overdoing it. By overdoing a project either will get sick of it or you will loose interest. Also, overdoing something does not necessarily means that you are actually productive in any way. In fact, most of the time, you are not. Just find a day of the week in which you can work on a specific project and stick with it.
  3. Rest well. If you book yourself to work on a particular project on Tuesday for example but you are unable to do it, don’t stress. Find time to rest and use your brain instead. The truth is that you can develop the entire project in your head. Once the model is ready, you can dump the whole thing on paper.

Finally, what you really need to answer yourself is whether spending more time on a project is actually worthed. If you think about it, the amount of time spent is totally irrelevant. On the other hand, the amount of focused/productive time spend on a project is quite important. The problem is that the more irrelevant time you spend on a project the further you go from your goal. The more focused time you put into a project the closer you get.

Multitasking or running several projects at once is all about good time management, cutting through the abstract work, resting well and having clear goals.