I remember seeing this message on one of my gym friends' t shirt a few months ago. It’s not the first time I saw this message—I had seen it countless times before—but this was the first time it stayed with me.

I was listening to “The One Thing” podcast while driving around Sydney last week, and in one of the episodes, they spoke about how, when they got started with their project, they decided to spend one hour working on the thing they were passionate about. An hour a day dedicated to things they wanted to see in the world.

“I could dedicate an hour a day to work on something I want to see in the world,” I told myself. I have had a long list of projects that I’ve been wanting to work on, but between a full-time job, gym, social life, and reading, I never took time to work on the projects I wanted to see in the world. The podcast was a great reminder to start. Getting older was a great reminder to start.

The last two weeks have been exciting. I wake up with plans for that one hour. There is something to look forward to every day. There is no pressure to plan that one hour, but I have managed to work on one of the projects I’ve had in mind for a few years now. The goal is to launch it before my birthday. Having a deadline to ship has been great. Constraints are good. I have been pushing code out every day, but I am not yet ready to share the URL with everyone.

Is there something you have been wanting to get started with?