Thanks for the comment. Using a trust worthy friend to help keep you accountable is a great idea. And it works. It’s a technique I’ve used to great success in the past.

However, it’s not *the* only way and donating $100 or other equally “painful” incentive also works. The added benefit of the self-imposed incentive is you don’t need anyone else to make it work.

dave

But by having ourselves to make something up like donating $100 to a worthwhile charity for every week we are late is not going to be effective either.

What I think is important when you want to get your personal stuff done is to let someone like your friend or sibling know that you are going to do what you’ve said you wanted to do, repeatedly. Then this person must always asking about your progress so far within or before the time frame you’ve set. I think this is quite effective because we don’t want to be seemed like a person who only talk but never execute the plan. It’s more about being a reliable person especially if you have others know that you are a reliable, trustworthy person…isn’t it going to make you proud about yourself?

I have a project going on, which I put on hold a few weeks ago. The main reason was that I just got bored, mainly because of the coding (FYI, it’s ActionScript 3.0). I haven’t worked on it much since. However, I have a good reason to finish it, because:
1. I’m probably going to need it in the near future as a programmer (or anything related to that).
2. I can use it as well for making other hobby projects because of the experience I get in the making.

I hope to continue it someday, if I get the motivation back. Regarding concentration issues, I do everything I can to optimize myself, like sleeping well, drinking lots of water, eating a good lunch, etc. I don’t want to change my sleeping hours because I’m a sleepy person. No joke. Since I’m so unmotivated, what am I doing wrong?

PS: Your blog is somewhat an inspiration to me for continuing my home project. You seem to write a lot about concentration problems, which I don’t exactly counter well.

Key points

– They try to do the development themselves
– They have little to no marketing skills
– The call being busy reading about new technologies rather than driving sales
– They are engineers

For an engineer to be a successful entrepreneur they need to use their old skills only as ammo in the meeting room, not in the terminal. Every minute spent coding is a minute which should be spent selling or telling someone else what to code.

Once the business is successful, engineers can return to the “fun” work of engineering the product, if not it will always just be a hobby which may, but most likely will not catch a lucky break.

Dave m8, your company website still says Products announcing Jan 2009. I hope that’s because you are in the meeting room selling and have no time for updating hobbies.

The RSS link to the Mobiusly blog is:

http://mobiusly.com/feed/

Just point your favourite reader to it and it should work.

thanks,
dave

There is no RSS syndication on business blog.

Thank You,
Jag

I’m quite the same as you, I’m pretty good when i’ve got the passion, I’ll write up a list of features for a project and everything i want out of it, And never execute it.

Same with my site too, Love having a domain..Never get round to design