How to declutter the bunch of stuff you want to do at the same time?
Tags: productivity, developinggoingon, career
Published: 2019-02-07 17:15:21

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title: How to declutter the bunch of stuff you want to do at the same time?
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description: Have you ever feel like you have too much to do and less time?
tags: productivity, developing going on, career
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I've decided to start my journey here on dev.to with this post.
Since a few months ago I've been thinking about so many things I'd like to do, but then again, I've *just been thinking* and not **really making** my dreams come true.

And that's just been because my time had started draining into other things. Last year, 2018, was an awesome year for me, but it was a life changing year for me as well.

# 2018 journey

#### awesome study year
1. I met my closest friends from college, who are also colleagues in the same field of study (Computer Science), so much better
2. I met new friends who became close friends too
3. Started full-time working as a web developer for a company few months before graduating
4. Graduated from college
5. Learnt a lot new things on web development flow and docker containers
6. Learnt and got experience with React.js, ES6, HTML5, CSS3 in particular
7. Could rest a little from the constant project working and studying within college
8. Reached my dream of __traveling to a different__ country for vacation
9. I participated in 2018’s hacktoberfest and earned the 5-PR contribution gift, partnered by **DigitalOcean**, **Github**, **Docker** and **Twilio**
10. Got focused on studying Japanese again

#### life changing year
1. Entered the adult life of paying bills xD
2. Now it's not college but the job the one that takes most of my time
3. Got to get up too early every day (_I still don't get used to_)
4. Arrive too tired at home so I don't focus on my personal projects
5. Problems managing my time an set up my schedule and stick to it
6. Got stressed because there are too many things and projects I want to work on or be part of, or habits I want to stick to my day to day

As you can see, 2018 was a great year for me but after all that I had a moment were I got stressed, really stressed, As I thought when college was over I'd have more time to spend on my real dreams and passions, but it wasn't true at all.

By every day I was trying to:

    - read at least one chapter of a book before work
    - do my work as front-end developer in my job
    - study at least 30mins of Japanese Vocabulary (I ended up studying more than an hour)
    - practice my listening skill of English by watching at least a chapter of any series
    - study/practice at least 30mins of Kanji
    - study/practice 1 or 2 hours of Japanese grammar
    - do at least 1 hour of swimming sport 
    - go to the gym / work out
    - go to the church (we've meetings everyday, its name is: The Light of the World)
    - work on a personal project to improve my skills with Angular
    - make a personal web portfolio
    - make a personal project for improving my react native skills
    - make a personal project for improving my compilers knowledge
    - create a personal indie game and publish it
    - learn unity
    - contribute to opensource projects like Rosalila Engine
    - learn Haskell better
    - create and publish an npm module
    - practice guitar
    - read a book before sleep

Obviously I always ended the day frustrated because I couldn't be committed to all that stuff in a day, I just ended doing ones more than others or nothing at all.

But then I realized the actual issue was I was trying to do everything at the same time, so because of that I was feeling I had no time in the day for completing everything I wanted do.

I still got a huge list of  **TO DO** things in Trello, but now I just decided to make goals for each one and start completing them one by one or at least a few ones by every month.

The key is just to start by prioritizing the ones you love, the ones you believe in, but one by one without getting your responsibilities out.

I will start to contribute to opensource projects from little changes to meaningful ones in an increasing way, and I recognized too that I support open source community by writing posts and helping people in forums, chat channels, video tutorials and stuff like that.

thanks for reading and wish me luck on the journey! ;)