How many projects do you have right now?

[RaBind]

So I keep seeing this reoccurring expression where a lot of the people in this forum self report having difficulty making sustained progress in one single project, and they chalk this up to them being an intp.

Personally I've also experienced similar difficulty in keeping my focus on one goal or project, but I've found myself discarding any unfinished project (which realistic would probably have stayed unfinished forever).

So I wanted to see everyone's list of unfinished projects and how much progress they are making on the projects, possibly even an estimate of when they project will be finished.

 

[Haim]

1 but kinda on hiatus.
unfinished?all of them that were games and not other things,the true goal wasn't to finish,due i want to finish the current one(involved my avatar).
A random guess is better than an estimate when it comes to software.

 

[Black Rose]

I have and idea about adding a.i. to an avatar once the oculus rift comes out. When that happens I won't need to go to the university to learn programming, it will be in VR. Mostly I do not go now because I have no drivers licence. Many universities and clubs will appear in VR and I can stay home while attending.

 

[Minuend]

I don't consider my unfinished projects a character trait per se, it's more that I just don't feel motivated for long periods of time and thus I don't do what I set out to do. But it's more a choice than an inevitable character trait, so to speak. I do prefer working on stuff when I feel inspired, though that is a fleeting, unpredictable feeling so I wouldn't get much done if relying on it. I don't think I need excuses for not finishing something, however. I mean, if I don't do something, I don't do something and that's that. Don't need to excuse myself to myself. I either do or do not.

So:

I want to learn absolutely everything. About 0.0001% complete on that one.

Started some lectures on macro economy and calculus, but it's been three weeks since I visited those last.

Kind of want to write a story at some point. Possibly science fiction or fantasy. I wont work towards publishing, it's mostly wanting to complete that creative process. I have some excerpts and some ideas. Due 2024

I started painting and got some stuff I was supposed to paint as a gift. I want to revisit that at some point, maybe.

Was doing strength exercising for a while. I tend to have periods where I exercise, then I might not for some months.

I start various games that I don't continue. I require about 2-5 hours of playing a game before I get into it. Starting and playing the game until that point is painful and I feel a resistance against it, and sometimes I let the resistance win (no revolution).

That's all I can remember right now.

Edit: I forgot self improvement. I think one way of developing my perspective is to read more philosophical works. Philosophy tends to come with a lot of roundabout ways of saying things and lots of new words you're not interested in learning. I think by reading more of that stuff and add a fluffy layer of thinking, I can see things in a more "meta" perspective. I'll also be able to use words like "objective" and know exactly how it's defined in philosophy. Maybe I'll be able to use words without attaching "".

Complete personal fulfillment due 2025 (July)

 

[Cherry Cola]

Not sure about projects, but I have all these things I want to become better at, they are like at least 10 different things, way too many

drawing, singing, playing piano, writing, training, cooking, various subjects im into and need to read about, various games I need to have played, movies I need to have watched, music I need to have listened to; its all part of some lifelong project to educate myself in order to be able to understand stuff as well as in order to maximize the brains potential by doing stuff thats good for it, I'm kinda deliberate about what I read, what I listen to etc. It's like a mental diet.

Of course my brain sucks anyway because I have no motivation to do anything, I should make solving that issue my main project, but if I neglect to indulge in my hobbies I feel like I start to become an idiot and if I'm an idiot then there's like nothing good about me left >.<'

I recall someone posting about people having issues because of "too many aptitudes" and that definitely fits me. I think my strategy is off, I already have a wide array of stuff I'm fairly decent at, I should focus on 1-2 things. You learn stuff that applies to everything if you go deep into something specific.

 

[Urakro]

-Compose music 75%
-Code my own score editor with MIDI/Soundfonts to compose more easily 0%

-Radically rearrange my desktop for productivity and theming in a way I will tolerate for a long while 64%
- More coding projects to put that together. 27%

- Make a notification system to schedule me of important things I need to do : 95%

- Clean and rearrange room, hang up pictures and certificates 16%

- Find a way to get a completely customizable mobile phone device. 35%

- Meditate daily 7%

- Create a meal plan for optimal health and easy on budget. 3%

- Build a gaming computer 32%

- Design a game 2%

- Find something better than 'jam' for an avatar 3%

Mostly, I have a hard time with getting ideas.

 

[redbaron]

Probably 5-6 projects in various stages of completion. But a month ago I probably had 10 or 12 so I've made some progress (:

On the topic of "too many" aptitudes, I learned a few days ago that 3 of my former teammates from a video games I played are now on a paid salary plus sponsorship endorsements, with accomodation in LA just to play competitively. I stopped playing that game seriously about 5 years ago to free up spare time for doing other stuff, mostly playing music. Silly me.

Even though I started playing again recently, 5 year gap is too long to go back to top tier play for probably another 6months-year and even then I won't be at world elite level. Others have caught up and the best have gotten even better. Woe is me.

 

[TheManBeyond]

I'm trying to return to my introverted life, lately i've been all time outside my home, and when i'm inside i feel i want to die, i can't find anything to do, all internet offers besides music seem to be really uninteresting. I kinda force myself to enjoy movies. I'm also smoking more than ever and i feel the need of keeping in touch with people through social networks, i need to stop this shitty attitude cuz it's emptying me.
So i don't really have much in mind:

- have some parts recorded for some songs that i hope i will record when i return to spain.
- after watching cowspiracy i wanted to stop eating meat, which i kinda naturally been doing for a long time when i'm the one who cooks for himself, the problem is that lately i also have free food in my university restaurant and sure i could skip meat there too but since it's free and handy i don't. This part needs a hardcore research on receips.
- i'm thinking of the design of a tshirt of a really amazing artist but since he's relatively underground u can't find anything on the internet, so i might do the design by myself and then use some printing tshirt store to get it done. I could just copy paste some cover but it would be too easy and boring for me.
- planing a trip to warsow and istanbul.
- i like a girl and i'm thinking of some strategy to go out with her, it seems that: "hey i'm bored wanna do something?" is too oblivious

 

[Sinny91]

About 5 that I'm dedicated to, about a million that I'm not.

 

[Sir Eus Lee]

I don't consider my unfinished projects a character trait per se, it's more that I just don't feel motivated for long periods of time and thus I don't do what I set out to do. But it's more a choice than an inevitable character trait, so to speak. I do prefer working on stuff when I feel inspired, though that is a fleeting, unpredictable feeling so I wouldn't get much done if relying on it. I don't think I need excuses for not finishing something, however. I mean, if I don't do something, I don't do something and that's that. Don't need to excuse myself to myself. I either do or do not.

So:

I want to learn absolutely everything. About 0.0001% complete on that one.

Started some lectures on macro economy and calculus, but it's been three weeks since I visited those last.

Kind of want to write a story at some point. Possibly science fiction or fantasy. I wont work towards publishing, it's mostly wanting to complete that creative process. I have some excerpts and some ideas. Due 2024

I started painting and got some stuff I was supposed to paint as a gift. I want to revisit that at some point, maybe.

Was doing strength exercising for a while. I tend to have periods where I exercise, then I might not for some months.

I start various games that I don't continue. I require about 2-5 hours of playing a game before I get into it. Starting and playing the game until that point is painful and I feel a resistance against it, and sometimes I let the resistance win (no revolution).

That's all I can remember right now.

Edit: I forgot self improvement. I think one way of developing my perspective is to read more philosophical works. Philosophy tends to come with a lot of roundabout ways of saying things and lots of new words you're not interested in learning. I think by reading more of that stuff and add a fluffy layer of thinking, I can see things in a more "meta" perspective. I'll also be able to use words like "objective" and know exactly how it's defined in philosophy. Maybe I'll be able to use words without attaching "".

Complete personal fulfillment due 2025 (July)

Basically the same here.

I have 3 pages of the start of a book. I have a few ideas where it will go, but nothing for sure.

I have another 3 pages of another bookish thing.

I have a couple more ideas for bookish things, but I think the problem with Ne is that it understands that at any point in time, something could diverge basically anywhere. So it searches for the best direction Ti can find. But Ti doesn't always have an answer. Idk.

I wanted to learn airflares once. So I started, worked for splits and all, but my body just will not do full splits, no matter how close I came, so I gave up.

I kept doing pushup and situps nightly but then, "to what end?" And so I stopped. I could only ever do 25 to 28 tricep push ups, so I gave up there.

I have 8 or 9 unfinished songs on garageband because it sucks and I can't do what I want with it. My computer sucks. I can't do what I want with it.

I have some programming languages I want to learn. I'll be working on those to some degree but it's not done.

I have a notebook full of weird, dismal poetry. And a journal once wrote in. But I don't any more.

I have at least 30 books on philosophy on my kindle, plus another 15 or so non philosophy, plus another 13 or so real books, besides the other 8 I've started but haven't finished, alongside another 4 or 5 on their way through amazon. I want to read all of them but if I keep Internetting and phoning like I am now, i probably won't finish them. I want to really bad though.

I have made at least 25 songs on piano that never had an ending. I have completed around 15 but I have forgotten most of them as I have gotten better over time. The other 10ish were infinished, and just little bits. All of them are outdated compared to my current skill level though. Except maybe 2 or 3.

Basically a lot of things.

 

[Vrecknidj]

At least 10.

I'm presently teaching 4 courses, and they're all in various stages of work. This also means I'm always reading, grading and planning.

I'm working on three books.

I'm keeping the accounting/financial records for three adjunct teacher unions.

I'm working on planning for a move within the next year or so.

I'm juggling three characters in different campaigns (one 3.5, one Pathfinder, one 5e).

In other words: the usual.

 

[computerhxr]

I ended up with too many projects so I did some pruning. I have a box that I put unfinished projects and ideas into for later. I lost one box that I had from 15 years. I use the same system my computer where it's self pruned when a hard-drive fails.

Right now, I'm working on 5 projects for clients. I have 2 of my own software projects going on as well. I'll probably take another client project on tomorrow.

I have a list of the next 20 or so software projects that I plan on launching over the next year. I will be replacing client work with my own project as they start to make money.

I have lots of personal and personal development projects going on. I have a few social experiments going on. I don't really know what qualifies as a project but I probably have a bunch more.

Finishing things is a challenge. Pruning helps me focus on a few at a time. When I lose something, then it's one less thing that I have to worry about so it's a relief. Anything important I will organize and complete, everything else I'm not so sure about...

One of my personal development projects right now is creating a system to motivate myself. I want to read more, write more, travel more, workout more, meditate more, and so on... I am working on creating a step-by-step system that I can follow over the next 5 years or so. I'll probably hire an assistant to help push things to completion.

 

[Urakro]

A description of a project I've been meaning to currently complete:

An idea spawned on me of making cool colour palettes. After playing with palette calculators and refreshing my knowledge of colour relationships, I was less than fervent for these customary styles and came up with an interesting idea.

Most OS's have colour pickers that separate the colours into a hue value between 0-360 degrees. I was thinking of making a variety of colour palettes based on music scales. Dividing the 360 degrees into the 12 notes of an octave, and generating every possible septonic, octogonic, or pentagonic scale represented by degrees of hue.

Using Gimp Script-Fu, I would find images lacking colour coherence, and apply this palette transformation to the hue value of every pixel. Then I would try to get a feel for how the music scales translated into colour.

Why am I doing this? I have no idea. I just know I don't tell too many people of my projects because they are perceived as pointless and make me look like a nut job.

 

[TeapotPanda]

Im currently finishing up a story "unrawing" it and checking the spelling in order to keep me focused on my story i sometimes force myself into creating side stories liek character origins.Usually this helps me to both determine and induce m mind into "the right" feeling to work on the main story.

I have fulyl develped board game wich i still need to create a prototype version from but i have no fix deadline on ether of the two things i mentioned.

Things that i wanna do but just cant focus on.. improve my drawing and shading, upgrade my visual library(you need this to draw).Develp something that can help people ith gloom minds like the one i used to posses (still do but less).Get a better job ;PProbelyl another thouzand things wich i just haven`t valued enough to start or finish...

 

[cheese]

I only ever have one project: being fkn awesome.

[Goddammit, I can't actually walk away from posts this obnoxious.]

Ok, my real project is attempting to suck less, and enjoy whatever I can on the way. I guess 'being fkn awesome' is the goal, and the process is troubleshooting my suck.

Right now I'm working on production. I want to be producing more - work, music, fruit in relationships, writing, thoughts. I'm primarily focused on music and writing. I've had the energy to respond to PMs and write posts, which has been very rare, and I have the energy to pick up more work. I'm hoping to really make use of this burst and perhaps even prolong it - which would be amazing.

 

[Yellow]

You know what? When I saw this thread title, my first thought was "I don't have any projects going on, what's wrong with me?"

Then I realized that I have so many projects open, it has consumed my existence. I have about a zillion at work, another zillion at home/other work, and then about 5 of my own.

I'm burnt out, and I'm to the point of apathy toward things I really should give a damn about. Hopefully that will sort itself out soon.

 

[Sixup]

I have about 3 primary career/education projects and 3 personal projects.

I don't call something a project unless it's a mid-long term thing that I'm working on regularly. Otherwise it's just a task, or thing I want to do someday.

I try to keep the amount of active projects I have low. And I try to make them all into a web sort of, so if I toss one project it doesn't kill my overall plan, but if I make progress on one it tends to strengthen everything else. This is all easier said than done, it's way too easy to get distracted.