tsar_nikolai

[I will phrase the question from the perspective of a solopreneur, but it is -of course- relevant to many more fields, please mentally adjust the question to your situation]

As a solopreneur, you are constantly 'switching hats' as you perform the various aspects that arise when running a business.

When you are building a digital project, there are days that you will find yourself doing various things such as

  - design
  - development (front-end + back-end)
  - sales
  - marketing
  - administration / taxes
  - long term planning
  - customer relations
  - supplier / industry relations
  - ...

and the list goes on and on.

And, especially when starting out, this often happens alongside a full-time job or part-time freelance work. (And this is not even taking into account any form of social life, wife and/or kids or the struggles with bad family relationships or mental/physical health problems that many of us have to deal with.)

In practice this variation is awesome. It means that you have the opportunity to develop a wide variety of skills and build broad knowledge. Yet there are often quite big gaps in the time between the application of those skills.

For me personally, I find it hard to manage and retain two things between those temporal gaps:

  1. Motivation/Plans
  2. Skills/Knowledge

So, HN, how do you do it?

  - How do you make sure you don't forget what you want?
  - How do you make sure you don't forget what you know?

*[edited for formatting]