I've always had a trouble with focusing in a certain field in my life for too long at a time. I am always working on too many things and falling behind in all of them, or barely keeping up.
I will focus on one thing for a few days, then switch it out for another, and then the third, then pick up thing one for a few days etc. Examples are:
- Improving my creativity
- Reading up on game design theory (job related)
- General self-development
- Housework
- Helping set up a Special Interest Group for Game Designers within IGDA
- Working on the board of JCI
- Getting to know the Warhammer 40'000 universe
- Social time with my girlfriend, family and friends
- Writing for my game design blog
- Learning to create maps for the Source engine
These are some of the things I'm working on right now.
I know goals are supposed to help me focus but I can't even stick to goals for too long at a time. Before long I lose interest in reaching any goals I set because by then I'm more interested in something else.