NerdGGuy

I have the same problem with distractions. Usually I blame the book, "Don't want to read this anymore, must be a crap book". My two methods for trying to keep at it are:

1) The Pomodoro Technique

2) If possible bend the exercise to fit my specific goals

On another note (not specific to picking up clients) I found the book www.businessmodelgeneration.com to be really helpful in my business explorations.

Good luck! Look forward to hearing your story! I understand the lure of temptations of making "the next big thing" and have been at critical crossroads many times before. I feel if things happened a little different I would have found myself in a situation similar to yours so I wish you all the best in your adventure.

I've used VTK before. The learning curve is much larger and it's a huge library. But it does have a lot of inbuilt functionality like database access with filters/conversions to format the data the way you need it.