Hello everyone!

Recent C#/.NET boot camp grad here. This post is about doing what you can.

I've been a big to-do list maker/user for a long time. Every Sunday night for the last few decades I've taken a notepad and wrote out the week's tasks in order of priority. Years later, I switched to Notes on the iPhone and I still make and edit my to-do list many times daily.

Recently I realized that my to-do list has many things on it I'll never do, and they're generally at the bottom. Why won't I do them? Because I feel like I'm not ready, and because of that I'll mess them up or get stuck prematurely. The truth is, the coding bootcamp I attended was a nerve-wracking daily ordeal of me not feeling "ready" and constantly messing up, making mistakes and getting stuck, often in pretty ludicrous ways. But I learned every day from those experiences.

My post-bootcamp to-do list has many things I'd like to do with coding, like more learning and independent projects but at the same time I don't feel ready to do them well. That usually makes me feel like putting them off and pretending like I'll do more learning before I try them but the truth is, with thinking like that I'll never get around to it, probably. I'll just do stuff that's easier.

I have 5 Udemy courses (JavaScript, Data Structures and Algorithms, some C# stuff) I've started and am about 7% into all of them. I need to devote daily time to them and finish them. Some are a bit over my head, but I decided it would be good to go through them anyway and be exposed to the material at least once and go from there.

Similarly I just need to get to the bigger challenges on my list and jump in! I find that items that are never attempted or finished are fatiguing to keep seeing. I want my to-do list to be interesting and inspiring! I have some basic app ideas and it would a nice refresher to build them.

So for the New Year I decided that I would scale my to-do list down but also hit every item as best I can and then move on. Thanks for reading!