…just for the fun

Keep rockin it folks…

I am gonna start right now…

On the time issue–oh man, do I ever sympathize. One thing you can do is break up the time you spend on a personal project into smaller chunks. Sometimes focusing relentlessly on a project can be to its detriment, actually. Give yourself limits to help motivate yourself and direct your energy productively. For example, tell yourself, I’m going to work on building the environment for this project this weekend; next weekend I’ll animate it. Set small, reasonable goals, and be patient with yourself–if you try to do everything at once, you’ll most likely end up with nothing.

The most important thing, IMO, is to be persistent (and often persistence consists of being consistent). If you consistently dedicate a few hours each week to learning and practicing, you’re going to be ahead of the person who spends one day practicing intensely, then does nothing for weeks. Keep the material fresh in your brain, and give yourself time to absorb it and think about it. Immerse yourself constantly in it, rather than taking isolated plunges.

Trust me, I’m incredibly guilty of trying to do everything in one sitting, and have little patience for taking it slow–but sometimes you have to force yourself to slow down, break up a project into small, reasonable goals, and let yourself feel that satisfying sense of achievement as you reach each milestone. And in the end, the project that had time to breathe and grow often turns out better than the project that was feverishly banged out in a short period of time (with exceptions, of course).

However my skills are still not up to the standard of some of these clips. Any advice on how I can fit in the time to advance my skills whilst working long hours!!?????
Basically how do you do it?