Comment by joeld42
6 months ago
I'm still not great at it, but the biggest thing that helped me was to give myself a rule, "Don't talk about what I'm planning, only talk about what I've done". Explaining a project's vision or goals give my brain a mini-version of the feeling of accomplishment of actually doing it, and I found that I would use that as a replacement for actually building stuff (which is much more work). Instead, if I only talk about the parts that I've completed, it's very motivating to build the next step so that I can share it. It also gave me more flexibility to change course during a project.
This has been a rule of mine also for a very long time (after I heard it described somewhere <- I didn't come up with it myself, or anything), and it definitely helped. (The only other advice I guess I have is that you can find someone who will be really unhappy if you succeed and then finish it out of spite, but that doesn't always work and has other negative side effects ;P.)