A half year ago, I started to make my website but left it undone. Many things were happened, called life, yet I think the main reason is I was out of motivation. Today, I’d like to tell you my story, what I learned from my mistakes and hope it helps others.
As you know, a personal website is important for personal branding, so I take it seriously. I want it to be as good as possible so I spent a ton of time for researching in order to show off an awesome website (and how awesome I am, of course 
). However, the more libs/frameworks I know, the more possibilities the web can be. It’s like there are a million decisions that I need to take. After days and weeks, I learned new cool stuff, and I had new ideas for my website but actually I still did not write any new code for it. New features mean the website needs more time to be done, new libs/tools means it takes more learning effort and overkilled for a website. Eventually, I got tired and lost inspiration.
Meanwhile, I wanted to start new side projects, at least to have some fun by experimenting new tech. But the highest priority is doing my personal website, so I postponed them. It was a deadlock. Now I regret that decision.
Inspiration is crucial to help we get to start a side project, we could spend all of our leisure time for it or even work overnight. On the other hand, it’s hard to keep the fire after a couple weeks unless getting any achievements.
My first mistake is I spent too much time for researching. I should’ve kept the project simple and finished it as soon as possible, then I can improve it later. By this way, I can get the sense of achievement and keep the inspiration.
“Just do it” - Nike’s slogan
My second mistake is keep doing the project that I lost the inspiration. I was at a standstill and felt bored, so I gave it up to spend my free time on other hobbies such as playing games or learning to play the piano. Instead, I should’ve started a new side project that I wanted to do. Then I can refresh myself and work more productively and effectively.
Now I’m back! After doing a side project about crawling news data, I want to write a blog about it. I intended to use Medium but I think I should reboot my personal web project.
I’ve suspended this project for a long time, now I need to finish this, at all cost.
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