Go agile for yourself. Push little changes and then increment, making stuff better. Try to get a feature done on the first day, no matter how small it is. It feels very rewarding and motivates to continue. Little steps first, no matter the stack

well for me not looking at the schema made it more fun and I guess the plot was also pretty involving ^^

  >  ... not looking at the schema ... 

Wait, you just guessed the table names? what am i missing here?

probably means looked at SELECT * from each table and interpreted the FK relationships vs. querying the schema table or looking at the ERD...