| I'm an app developer, I've felt the same for the past few months. I noticed a few things directly affect my productivity and interest in my work: 1) Exercise: I need intense, mentally engaging exercise to feel fufilled. I get this through my martial arts training (muay thai / jiu jitsu). I had to take a few months off after moving to the city, and I felt pent up and frustrated without a physical outlet. 2) Music: A short term mood improver is to put on some high energy music, preferably stuff you can dance and move to. Music gets the brain juices flowing. 3) Sunshine/vitamin D: Being a night owl, it goods to resync to a daytime schedule every quarter. Getting to walk in the sun for a few minutes and observe daily bustle is refreshing. 4) Most importantly, working on challenging and interesting projects: My last few apps were largely clones of previous successes. This means I didn't have to think up anything new, or creative. I was unmotivated to work on it because it was mostly "manual labor", with no new programming riddles to solve. So obviously, when it was time to get shit done, I just didn't care, I already knew the answers. I suspect your freelance work is uninteresting to you. Over the past couple years, I learned that my mood and productivity pretty much looks like a sine wave. High intensity creativity and motivation, followed by weeks of leveling out. Perhaps this is the nature of self employment. |