If nobody gives you a deadline, give yourself one. Dreams without dates tend to drift.

School and jobs hand you deadlines, which is why work you do for yourself is the first thing to slide. Without a date there is no difference between doing it this month and doing it next year, and no signal when it has slipped. A deadline is mostly a way of making time visible.

Give your current project a specific date and tell one person about it. Choose somebody who will actually ask you. External pressure works even when you built it yourself on purpose.