Hard things are hard

I've been struggling recently with trying to capture enthusiasm for all the 'interests' that are on my plate at the moment.
I've been diligent in gathering up the list of things I'd like to do in Notion, categorising them and breaking them into the things I need in order to give me a chance to progress on each, yet I struggle to get started.
I'm acting like a magpie at the moment, gathering up all the shiny things, placing them in neat ordered piles, and then doing nothing with them, apart from looking at them from time to time and thinking 'I really should do something with all these piles of stuff', before abandoning them at some point in the future and writing that interest off as something that was purely a distraction.

At some point in the past I convinced myself that these were things I could be interested in, or that they could act as a decent distraction from the existential crisis I find myself in almost every day, when I just don't want to do the things I'm supposed to do, yet can't find the energy to do something else.

The point I'm trying to make here is that hard things are hard. You don't just slip into an easy new hobby - the learning curve for everything is tough and requires a bit of diligence and determination to get over the initial hump and then start to enjoy the progress.

For me, thanks to my terrible memory and apparent inability to remember that I enjoyed 'doing thing X', I have to restart this process over and over again. I believe that is the crucial point that is holding me back from making progress on all the side hustles / hobbies that I have gathered around me like a magpie gathers it's shiny things.

Hard things are hard. Doing small amounts every day, in every discipline, being careful not to burn out on any individual thing, and sticking to it until I want to keep going is the key. On really hard things, like learning to code where I have played with starting and stopping across so many different topics, the crucial thing is to build actually useful things and deploy them out in the world, to demonstrate that the skill I'm learning has some use. That's hard at the start when all the little starter projects don't mean shit, but they still have value; and I could assemble them at least in a little 'app collection' to which I add new components.

Frankly they could all be hosted under a single project with new pages for each - that way I'm not having to go through a laborious setup each time, but am essentially adding 'features' to the app collection.

perhaps I could give that a go. It would be a handy way to capture new lessons as I progress, too.