How to Keep Your Enthusiasm for a Project When You Hit the Slump
The idea fills us with intense excitement. We imagine a world where we’ve successfully pulled off our endeavor, and the world is eager for our contribution. Our energy is in it’s peak state.
The initial excitement fuels us to begin our life-altering project. We pull together our ideas, resources, and organize our thoughts into a frenzied whirlwind of work, but it gets harder as we go along. Slowly, we lose focus. We have to hit “Pause” on our work so life can continue whether that’s spending time with family, going out with friends, eating, or sleeping.
Eventually it gets harder and harder to come back to our work, but we do come back, fire up the project once more and grind down again on the “To-Do” list. Although, sometimes we wonder if the effort is worth the outcome. By now the glitter has faded under the pressure of completing our assignment. The once-golden future has turned steely under the gaze of reality.
What do we do when we don’t want to work? When the project no longer seems relevant, urgent, or meaningful?
We plug along as slow as a dead vehicle moving uphill, or we drop it entirely, brush our hands of the idea, and move on.
But your idea was fantastic, and you want to keep going. You just don’t know why, how, or when…
