How do you stay focused on a project.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

If you need more focus on something you're doing that's supposed to have captured your passion in the first place, then find a new passion. You clearly aren't all that interested.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

If you need more focus on something you're doing that's supposed to have captured your passion in the first place, then find a new passion. You clearly aren't all that interested.

+1
Every time I do something other than type card collecting it gets boring. Variety is the spice of life

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

To add to my previous comment, I'm certainly not discouraging OP or anyone else to leave this hobby! Not when there are countless wonderful ways of enjoying it! Simply find another avenue to go down to rekindle the flame. The absolute best part of this hobby is that there truly are no rules! If you want to buy two 1986 Topps commons and then proclaim you've collected every baseball card known to exist, there's nobody stopping you! It's not incorrect if it's your personal truth. Do it however you want. That should be the joy of it.

If you're bored with trying to collect an entire set, then just realize that this notion of a "set" is just a rule implemented by someone else. Move on.

I completely gave up on unsigned cards over 30 years ago when there were so many new releases that it was simultaneously dizzying and sickening. I switched solely to autographs and haven't looked back. I was attempting to collect the autograph of every single man to put on a MLB uniform from 1876 onward. A daunting and impossible task, but I made wonderful headway. Then, as the 1990's gave way to the new millennium, I was struggling to enjoy the disgusting scribbles of the new guys to join the fold. I created a new rule that my version of this collection would end at the year 2000. That way, I didn't have to collect things that turned my stomach to look at, just because they were part of a "set", if you will.

[skelly423]

I'm in a similar boat, I'm building the 1952 Topps set. At times it can feel like a real grind, or the supply of cards can dry up. I like to have a side project to work on as a distraction when the 1952 build stalls. In my case I've been picking up a few affordable singles I've always liked, as well as some Diamond Stars cards to for an eventual build of that set.

I find the distraction can serve as a good change of pace, and I feel refreshed when I get back to the main set again.

[skil55voy]

I went from building complete sets by year to building team sets for Detroit teams. I sold my original Topps/Bowman/Donruss/Fleer etc. runs from 1955-1982 to buy my first house. I kept my Post Cereal and Jell-o cards from the 60's and all the newer ones. (With my children eating the cereal I was able to build sets) When Topps started Allen & Ginter, Gypsy Queen and Heritage I started working on those sets but, SHORT PRINTS for the sake of SHORT PRINTS turned me away. (I just sold all my Heritage cards because they were just gathering dust.) I did try to build a 2012 Gypsy Queen and I have come close but, the mini's (especially Green and Black) have left me soured on finishing. I now concentrate on Detroit sets and I look for oddball cards of those teams along with pre 1950 cards and memorabilia. It's still a joy to go shows and hunt cause you never know what you will find. (I can still say this being 70 years old and collecting since I was 5)

[Exhibitman]

I’m with Paul. My collection is The Festival of Bric-A-Brac.

[JollyElm]

No focus. None. Never.