Ask HN: How can I start executing on side projects?

Dear wise posters on HN, I am struggling with a situation I am sure many of you have been in. I have a comfortable full time job at a large tech company. I have dreams of entrepreneurship, but I am not yet financially stable enough to leave my job. My goals for the next year are to increase my savings and pay off my debt so that I can be free to choose my own path. I would also like to execute more on the various side projects and ideas I have had kicking around since forever. Specifically, I have been learning iOS programming as I figure even if I do not produce a highly profitable app, it is a skill that I can monetize through contracting. However, I find myself lacking some impetus when it comes to following through on any of these ideas. I know I need to start executing, rather than getting caught up in an idea for a week and then dropping it for something else, or worse, dropping it and spending the next week playing a videogame in my spare time. One of the reasons is that my full