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Alessandro Ronchi

Hi, the frustration you describe is likely related to procrastination.

One advice I got from a course on time management is that of time-boxing and focusing on the process rather than on the product.

In other words: if you like working on side project on your spare time, define how much time (someone would say "the number of pomodoros") you will spend weekly and go with it.

If you measure your success based on the result it will likely generate frustration.
If you measure based on the number of tasks you accomplished in planned time you will wipe away that bad feeling of not being able to finish doing things.

Hope it helps.

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Jon Stødle

I've tried a bit of "lightweight pomodoro", but I'm better at procrastinating than I am bad time management 😛