[tarikjn]

I have the reverse issue, I am constantly coming up with creative ideas, so that by the time I am done building idea A prototype v1 (something like what you see in this video) or v2, idea B comes along and distracts me from seeing idea A all the way through. And when the persistence and discipline is there, bills need to be paid, and the distraction is not idea B, but merely some mundane work.

[jacquesm]

I solve it like this: when at work the soldering iron is in the garage. That little barrier helps a lot when temptation to tinker strikes.

One thing that I really like about this site is that the creator spends a ton of time on documenting it all. I am usually so busy with projects I don't get around to it. Another problem is that, especially for larger projects, that you need to store and maintain them. And that gets old pretty quickly when you're lugging around 200 pound windmills and such.

[dekhn]

Interesting. My electronics work-bench is right next to my work/personal computer, so when I block on work stuff I can switch to doing a little on my electronics projects. It's made me much more productive.

[jacquesm]

I'm just too easily distracted. I start on a thing that I think will take five minutes, next thing I realize that it's 7 am, birds are tweeting and there is a stone cold cup of tea sitting next to me and a bunch of non-priority stuff done (but it's so much more fun...).

Most dangerous times: when the administration needs to be brought up to date for the tax man. Then I really have to force myself. Fortunately I've been able to off-load most of that but even the little bit that remains is enough to get me to spend 30 hours on something else to avoid 1/2 an hour of work.

[stavros]

Isn't it great how you grab the soldering iron (or whatever) at 2 am for a quick thing, and five minutes later it's 7 am?

[jacquesm]

Just that... and here I am... 4:40 and not a soldering iron in sight :) Off to bed!

(Ear training exercises are fun. I just built an ear training module into the beta of pianojacq.com and it's a hoot, what's also interesting is that it seems to have an immediate effect on playing ability, I really didn't expect that)

[stavros]

That seems interesting, too bad I don't have a MIDI device (or any musical ability, but that's less important) to try it out...