When beginning any project there is always this moment of “oh man, what do I do first?” For the longest time I would start in the worst way possible by diving head-first into projects and working only on the parts that excited me the most. I consistently ignored the big picture in order to focus on the details. I learned a couple of things from trying to work this way for nearly a decade:
- I never finished a project working in this manner.
- I still do this and always risk failing to complete projects as a result.
- It wasn’t until I worked on defining the scope of my project that I understood what I needed to “hyper-focus” on.