Below are some questions will help you decide on what outcome you would like to create.
Think of what you are good at and what you like to do?
What should my product look like? What materials should I use? How will it be assembled? What tools will I use?
What is the purpose of my product/outcome? What will it do? How easily can it be used/maintained?
Who is it for? Consider for whom would you like to make the outcome for? Consider the age, gender, socio-economic background?
Is there a cost involved? Do I have a budget?
Lastly, it is very important to connect your passion with the purpose of your personal project. The image on the left shows some examples. You can think of many more...
If you are doing a project on "Developing Mental Health awareness", you may decide to make an Instagram account through which you would like to influence people to develop awareness.
Following are the steps you can follow:
Create the Instagram account
Make a goal to do two posts daily
Deciding what types of post to be updated on the page
Creating the posts and posting those
Planning on how to popularise your page and get followers
Evaluate the influence and whether your page has been helpful in developing awareness. This can be done by conducting a survey with your page followers or doing interviews of some of your followers?
Evaluating the sustainability of your product. Making a plan on how to sustain your product