How to "self-organize" in time?

Question

Work organization

Good!
I wanted to consult with you - how to find time for self-education and conducting your projects with the least possible expenses of brain cells?
It so happened that he is passionate about web development (front-end, wordpress, joomla, html, css, js), but there is no education in this area. I work in another area (at a different position), and therefore I have to deal with front-end, for free, in my free time from my main job, as a hobby. Motivation weakens over the years.
I myself use Evernote to organize my time and structure the knowledge gained in the process of self-education.
Are there any tips in this regard?

Answer 1

• Quit your job at the first opportunity to earn money in web development.
  
• Choose 2 hours of peak brain activity and minimal laziness in a day and always read and study at this time (practice and stackoverflow are not enough for self-development). I have this time from midnight to 3. I always read books at this time and try knowledge in practice
  
• If you can't study at home, stay at work. If a week has passed and every evening was busy with garbage at home, then come to terms with the fact that you have unsuitable conditions at home.
  
• joomla - slag :) Please, switch to something more serious as soon as possible, otherwise you will be raising online stores overnight for 600 rubles from freelancing for the rest of your life.
  
• The most important rule in general for the rest of your life is not to become discouraged: never overestimate what can be done in a month and never underestimate what can be done in a year . (valid for the option 1 year / 10 years)
  

Answer 2

I'm reading the book "18 minutes" right now , it talks about it, the book is small - it won't take much time.
Many important things come up in it. I advise you to read, perhaps you will find the answer to your question there.

Answer 3

While I work, 2 applications help me. Humster is a time tracking program that allows you to track how much time I spend on any task or project, provides statistics. It forces you to be more responsible in the process of work. The second application is rescuetime.com. It generally tracks all my activity, gives detailed statistics. You can clearly see how productively the day was spent. In general, with these programs it became easier for me to organize myself.

Answer 4

did not understand you self-education or self-organization for self-education? )
start with motivation -
Kelly McGonigal's "willpower" - the mechanics of the
time management process - Arkhangelsky's "time drive" or even better Brian Tracy - for example "In focus" or "Get out of the comfort zone"
by tools - evernote is quite for individual planning or Onenote for notes (even more rushing lately) + todoist.com bundle and weekcal calendar for iOS
for fixing and reporting time - I use rescuetime
for organizing teamwork and communicating with clients - worksection.com - super in general
for quickly finding answers - google or quora.com or stackoverflow
self-education - coursera
learn English - watch a familiar TV series with subtitles or read a familiar book with an electronic dictionary
in six months - it’s easy
like I wrote everything)

Answer 5

>Motivation weakens over the years.
If you have been working on a project for YEARS that does not bring you anything, then a psychologist is not needed to understand that motivation will fall.
If you are already an expert in your core field, it will be extremely difficult for you to start in another field from the bottom, since the transition to a lower salary is an extremely uncomfortable process to accept.
Usually they try to somehow combine, using the main specialization to introduce a hobby, and then, if the hobby begins to generate income at least comparable, you can already change direction. But that rarely happens.

Answer 6

Have you ever tried writing your own CMS? Try it. Just show it to someone!
I recommend kicking some simple framework like Kohana. There is good Russian documentation and there are courses from ShP on it on torrents. This is not to say that Kohana is our everything, but it will give you an idea about MVC and how modern PHP frameworks work. Then you can already try YII 2 and so on, this is a different level. It's more fun there. And with the "Hallowords" tie.
You can study like this: online courses in your spare time + pomodoro There are a
lot of courses . Many of them are free.