请问HN:我对我的副项目感到疲惫不堪,却又无法抽身。该怎么办?

5作者: ahmedfromtunis大约 1 个月前原帖
我已经独自花了四年时间在这个副项目上,并在两年前正式推出。<p>我对这个问题领域充满热情,用户的积极反馈一直是我巨大的动力和认可来源。<p>我甚至请了一年全职假来专注于这个项目,这帮助我在一个小众市场中建立了它。<p>在通勤、做家务或跑腿时,这个项目是我唯一能想到的事情。我甚至为用户请求的易于构建的功能制定了详细计划。<p><i>然而,每当我坐在电脑前,我就会感到无比紧张。</i><p>我知道该构建什么以及如何构建,但我花费两到三个小时努力保持专注,结果却只能连续工作30分钟。(而且,番茄工作法也没有奏效。)<p>我感觉自己就像一根迫不及待想要跳到其他地方的弹簧。<p>我尝试在日常工作之后和上班之前进行工作。我退出了社交媒体,努力利用空闲时间消费长篇媒体,以避免破坏我的注意力,因为我一直认为这可能是我困扰的原因。但结果还是一样:执行的能量为零。<p>更糟糕的是,我甚至无法享受远离它的时光。不在电脑前工作而感到的内疚完全毁掉了我的晚上、周末和社交时间。走开似乎是不可能的,因为内疚让我放松比尝试(并失败)工作更有压力。<p>我该如何逃离这个循环?<p>(是的,我在<i>试图</i>进行一些项目工作时写下了这些。)
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I&#x27;ve been solo working on this side project for over four years now, and I officially launched it two years ago.<p>I am deeply passionate about the problem space and the positive feedback from the users continues to be a huge source of motivation and validation for me.<p>I even took a full-time sabbatical for a year to work on it, which helped establish it in a small niche.<p>When commuting, doing chores or running errands, it&#x27;s the only thing I can think of. I even created detailed plans for easy to build features that users requested.<p><i>YET, every time I sit down in front of my computer, I freeze up.</i><p>I know exactly what to build and how to build it, but I spend two or three hours trying to maintain focus for more than 30 minutes in a row. (And, no, Pomodoro didn&#x27;t work either.)<p>I feel like a spring that can&#x27;t wait to jump somewhere else.<p>I&#x27;ve tried working on it after my day job and before work. I quit social media and try to spend my free time consuming long-form media to avoid ruining my attention span because I keep thinking that&#x27;s the cause of my strife. But the result is the same: zero energy for execution.<p>Worse yet, I can&#x27;t even enjoy my time away from it. The guilt of not being in front of my computer working on the project completely ruins my evenings, weekends, and social time. Stepping away feels impossible because the guilt makes relaxing more stressful than trying (and failing) to work.<p>How can I escape this cycle?<p>(And, yes, I wrote this while <i>trying</i> to do some work on the project.)