Don’t give up. Ever!
This is even more important when you’re a software engineer.
Motivation will always come and go. Some days you’ll feel unstoppable. Others, you’ll barely want to touch your code. That’s why goals alone don’t work. They depend on how you feel.
What does work is setting up systems.
Systems don’t care about your mood. They just run.
When you start thinking in systems, you build consistency into your work.
You stop chasing the next burst of energy and instead create an environment where progress happens by default.
The hard part is not the system itself.
It’s the shift in thinking.
It takes effort to start breaking things down into small, repeatable steps.
So, here’s where to start:
Break problems into tiny pieces.
Never start with the big picture. Start with the smallest action that moves the project forward.
Draft a quick prototype before implementation.
Don’t spend hours planning the perfect architecture. Build something small, then improve it. Every iteration teaches you more than any plan could.
Once you begin operating this way, things get lighter.
You start seeing results more often. You start trusting your process instead of your mood.
That’s when progress becomes natural, pleasant, and automatic.
And once that happens, giving up stops being an option, because the system keeps you going.