This short article is a reflection of my advice and suggestions to take when someone is feeling tired from constantly working or learning every day when trying to self-teach themselves new skills by completing work or projects.

Everyone has different schedules and work to complete every day and it is taxing to set aside more time every day to work on a self-task, project or learn a new skill. Working long hours or many days consecutively can lead to burnout. A suggestion to feel less burned out, is, to compile a list of tasks that needs to be finished first and also other tasks that interest you. Having a scheduled list or an agenda organizes what needs to be prioritized to be completed first. Every other task that is should be on the list should interest you, to create some motivation to finish the more important tasks to work on the other tasks. It is also best to make a plan for how to complete each task. For example, if one objective on your agenda is to learn a new programming language, you would need to think about what steps are needed to first learn the basics and then master the advanced and complex techniques. Of course, some days you could make some or even no progress, but learning is always a constant journey and as long as you give giving your best effort to learn a new skill or improve yourself, progress has been made. Throughout our learning, mistakes are made and we learn from those experiences to prevent those same mistakes from happening in the future. If you feel tired for many consecutive days, it is best to take a one or two-day break, spend more time relaxing or resting for those days, then continue back to working on your tasks or self-projects.