Most artists (even aspiring ones) have more bad days than good ones. Between the two days when your system is rolled live and when your blog post tops reddit there are going to be a whole lot of days which are going to be awfully silent.
On some of these days, you are going to have fights with friends, breakups, failures, depressing thoughts, self loathing, doubts about what you are doing, doubts about your life, physical sickness, invitations to parties you do not want to attend but end up attending, meetings, chores and hours when you find it practically impossible to focus on what you truly love doing.
All artists (programmers, painters, writers, singers....) go through these days.
Most kickass artists even admit going through these days openly.
The big difference, between artist who builds stuff and a whiner who whines is that on these days an artist starts working on what he loves doing to come out of the depressing thoughts. A whiner uses these days as an excuse to stop working on something that he loves working on and crawls into depressing thoughts.
An artist opens the IDE even on a bad day. A whiner closes his open IDE as soon as he encounters a bad day.
True artists show up. Even if its just for an hour every day.
True artists know that if they worry about the bad days, the silent days, the depressing days or the shitty days, they are never going to be able to ship, because there are just too many of these days.
Bedsides, everyone has bad days.
Stop using these days as an excuse to surrender control to your lizard brain.
We are calling your bluff.
Now come out of that hibernation get back to doing what you love doing and start shipping.
I dare you.
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