I think we tend to overthink our side projects because of fear. I suffer from this too.
The architecture and planning parts are a safe playground for our ideas where we can feel like we're accomplishing something when we're not (in most of the cases). This attitude also has the side-effect of making us lazy, procrastinate more, accomplish nothing, feel guilty and let the project. Then we start a new one repeating the same mistakes and never break the cycle.
As you mention, starting small, prioritizing, rearranging continuously, and doing at least a minor part a week, a month is better than nothing and will help our momentum to continue pushing the project forward. And if you fail to complete the task at hand for whatever reason (because always something will happen that can deviate us), remember don't be hard on yourself.
I think we tend to overthink our side projects because of fear. I suffer from this too.
The architecture and planning parts are a safe playground for our ideas where we can feel like we're accomplishing something when we're not (in most of the cases). This attitude also has the side-effect of making us lazy, procrastinate more, accomplish nothing, feel guilty and let the project. Then we start a new one repeating the same mistakes and never break the cycle.
As you mention, starting small, prioritizing, rearranging continuously, and doing at least a minor part a week, a month is better than nothing and will help our momentum to continue pushing the project forward. And if you fail to complete the task at hand for whatever reason (because always something will happen that can deviate us), remember don't be hard on yourself.
Completely agree!