[courage]

You really want to start off with a baseline of good sleep, eating and fitness habits. If you are healthy you'll have a lot more energy to get things done.

After that it's like everyone tells you--choose the most important things to do with your time. My advice would be to make really sure the goals you are choosing match with what you're internally motivated to do.

It may be that your spouse and children (and maybe even your day job) are more important to you than side projects. If that's the case, and those things eat 100% of your time, be happy that you're doing what's most important, and stop wasting energy fretting about the endless list of things you would do if you had no time constraints.

[program247365]

Good advice.

I've recently started running again. Can you believe I did a half-marathon in high school? God that was a long time ago, but I want to get back there, fitness-wise, and I'm trying to commit to this. I definitely feel better when I exercise. I did today, and I just think clearer, you know?

For now, seems like the side projects are going to the back-burner, and the real concern is to just get a consistent freelance gig, to make ends meet better. I love my family, and I'm trying to get advice on making this all work. Thanks for your feedback.