Nifty 50 has it right.
Clean the shop up real nice and set up a movie projector on the wall some night and sit in the truck with the wife and pretend you are at the drive in on a date. She'll love it and it will motivate you a bit too.
Always take time to clean up your shop at night too. Starting fresh with all the tools in the right place helps get started again the next time you go to work on it. A dirty work space that has to be picked up before I can start on something is a real motivation killer for me.
I have a standing rule that nothing goes into the shop (or work place) that doesn't belong there. Some things sneak in but they are the first things to be removed when it comes to making room fo rthe projects. I had a gal who tried to "clean" up my house and wanted all that "stuff" to go into the garage to make more room for her. "Nothing doing" was my reply. "The shop is mine".
Whne I was on the IRWIPI Adventure (see link below), sometimes Uncle Carl and I would just sit back and have a cup of coffee and just think about things to gather our thoughts. When something goes wrong, take a break and take another look at things from a different angle. Get a game plan. Sometimes things that are puzzling or difficult and we need to step back and try to think a little simpler about things.
Look at what you accomplish each day, not how far out the end is. I tell my girlfriend what I did after wards and each time she seems to think I accomplished so much..even when I think I didn't really make a lot of progress. Keep the good things in your head before you go to sleep and don't dwell on the problems. You don't need the bad stuff stirring in your head when you are resting.
Post every time here on Stovebolt what you accomplish every night or every week. You'll be suprized how much support is here.
Besides, we like to talk about that stuff here.
