Happy Friday! This has been an exceptionally great week for me in terms of personal motivation.
I'm proud to say that I've completed my morning routine each morning (reading, journaling, and ten minutes of meditation before diving into any work stuff), I've made great progress on my budget app (Round 2: redoing the tutorial and Round 3: building the app but not following the tutorial videos), and I've been being more mindful of my health (staying hydrated, eating balanced meals, exercising regularly, getting lots of sleep, etc).
In terms of the budget app, I started in on Round 3 (building the app but not following the tutorial videos) yesterday, and it was actually quite a challenge! Definitely a great example of why it's important to follow along with tutorials up until a certain point but then to consciously break away from them in order to build an app on your own.
To put it simply, it's hard! And it's definitely not as sexy as coding up a storm by following along with a tutorial.
But it's so, so important - and I'd go so far as to say it's the factor that sets self-taught developers apart from one another along their learning journeys: those who make the conscious decision to solve problems on their own and those who stay in the shallow end with the comfort and relative safety of tutorials.
But the magic there lies in pushing through those obstacles. In consistently overcoming that often-disheartening feeling of starting from 0. In keeping true to the vision, even and especially through the tough and uncertain parts.
I haven't gotten there in this specific context, but past experience tells me I'll love what I see when I come out on the other side.
This post was originally published on March 13, 2020 on my blog.
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