[pagejim]

For the last two years, I have been trying, on and off, to develop a few ideas into maturity. You can call these my side projects. I started out, thinking that taking 5-6 hours out from my weekends and a couple of hours per weekday, would do the job.

My day job is quite demanding in terms of hours and energy that I put in.

After around one year of trying hard to perform well in my day job, keep on developing my side projects and have a decent social life, I gave up. It was not working out. Time and again, I found myself, totally tired mentally and physically.

I couldn't understand what was it that I was doing wrong. Then time and again, I would hear stories of people who were successfully juggling day-job, side-projects and family life. I just did not get it and still don't.

Is there some kind of strategy that you have to follow? Is my time-management not good enough? Is something missing in my attitude? Or is it just plain luck, that things work out sometimes and other times they don't.

[boagworld]

My advice is keep the side project small and only work on one at a time. We often spread ourselves too thin and try and undertake something too big. If we cannot see fast results we become demoralised.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Is there some kind of strategy that you have to follow?

Prioritization. Unless you have infinite amounts of energy, something has to be given less importance. Often that means shifting priorities among the different things you are doing.