I need inspiration!!!

Fellow Wagonists...? Wagoneers?... Wagontonians? Wagarians..?.. anyway..

I don't know if it's the change of the seasons.. I'm just feeling gray.. or what the deal is, but I literally have not been in my shop in over a month!.. closer to two! This is not like me at all... You guys go through periods like this? I get home.. feel like I'm in a funk and just putz around inside. Enough of this.. man, I'm wasting precious time. I'm half way through an engine pull and that's where I stopped. What's up with that!?! If you knew me this is totally NOT like me.. I'm stuck in a funk and I need to work on my junk!

At least my poetic skills are still intact. HELP!!!!!
:rant:

The engine waits for install....

 

I'm totally right there with you Super, I am at a stand still with my interior, I got it all stripped out at the start of summer and have just been looking at it since. I can't seem to get out there and get stuff done. I go out to the garage and just look at it, and on top of that there is a hundred other things I have to do first...lame. Something that has been of some help is right here, the forum. I see awesome cars and hear what members are doing and I keep motivated. I have found sometimes you have to wait for motivation to "hit" again, the problem is that sometimes it takes its sweet time. Your engine looks outstanding so just hang in there and keep tinkering here and there, even if I just do some cleaning and undercoating I still feel progress is being made.

 

Nothin' good happens fast

Take a patiants pill guyz. Do something every day and it'll happen. INCH BY INCH, EVERYTHING IS A SINCH:2_thumbs_up_-_anima An ole' guy iz speakin' atcha. Took me 22 years to do the Batwagon I know from what I spake

 

Heck if my engines look that good I'd want to just leave them there sitting like that too!
And just admire my handiwork.
Of course they don't do anything just sitting there looking pretty...so quit being lazy and get the freakin' car back on the road!

There, does that help at all??

 

The definition of sucess: 1%inspiration, 99%perspiration. This may not be universally apropos, but when I get bogged down with a project, I try to keep this thought in mind. Do one thing today! It doesn't really matter what that one thing is but if you do it, it will get you closer to your goal. This time of year with the gray and gloom of the weather can often conspire to affect your mood but if you want to achieve your goals you have to be willing to do what most people are not willing to do and that is simply to do whatever you need to do, that if you do that, you will accomplish your goal.

 

Ahhh yeah... all better now... ha!

I WILL force myself in there today. I've got a feeling it's like when you haven't worked out in awhile and you're looking at the weights or treadmill thinkin... "ah maybe tomorrow".. but once you get started your fired up again both guns blazin'.. :floor_jack:

 

Well, with the gloomy weather we have up here in the NW during these months, it's very easy to drop down into a gray funk. After living here 3+ years, I still have trouble with it. I think part of my trouble getting out to the garage is that it's really dark out there - even during daytime with the door open. Only one little light bulb. I need to get some of those shop lights.

 

Super,

I am afraid that I don't know exactly what you are going through. But I have my suspicions.
However, every day of my life that I can remember, I have been driven to work on my projects. When I am not... I am thinking about them and planning the next step.

That said... I sometimes do get burned out on a project and it gets "shelved" for a time. But do I leave the studio? Hell no!
Get your ass back into the shop, turn up the music real loud and clean it up if nothing else. That always makes me feel better.

Ignore the wife.
Ignore the weather.
Ignore the stream of politics and newsfeed and instead listen to the soundtrack of our lives, whatever that is, and do SOMETHING!

For me... its' less Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage and more Beatles, Rolling Stones and Rachmaninoff!

Hope that helps.

 

I'm in the same boat but with a known reason. I am BROKE! Even the few things I want to do to get started I cant afford! Soon though. I did at least drop my tank off this week to be vatted and boiled out.

 

Good on ya Ulyses! I didn't even mention the "broke as a joke" part in my comment...I blew some money on a steering wheel that I didn't really have...:banghead3: I had to have it though. You know priorities.

 

Well if you read my thread about being mad I was about to drop a few hundred on a big block that I didn't have but sometimes when a deal comes along ya just gotta make it happen. Guess it was meant to be that the deal fell through.

 

Yeah I read your angry thread and can't say that I blame you one bit.

 

You guys make me sick. Don't let a little gloom and doom or the lack of cash for more stash get you down. Stop this stupid poetry crap and get out and do something.


By the way, my 48 Chevy panel has sat so long with nothing done, I can hardly find it under the junk and dust. My 55 Chevy wagon has so many half done projects I forgot which I was gonna get done first.

But I'm here to tell you to do something and do it now! I'm busy sitting on my butt thinking of excuses not to go out into the cold dark garage.
60 degrees with six or eight florescent lights and it's still gloomy! Okay, I didn't help matters much! Take a break. It'll all come back to ya. Sometimes just stepping away is best. After all, it's a hooby, not a job.

 

I came in from the garage after checking all fluids on my wagon because I've driven it everyday since Saturday and have treated it as my only car. I've been having a great time driving it and get inspired every time I drive it. I also get on average a "thumbs up" every 5 minutes or so of drive time along with several people who come up to talk to me at work, gas station, dry cleaners, hardware store, etc. I had a guy yesterday pull out his phone and take a picture while I was sitting in it. That motivates me to keep driving it, improving it, making it more ______ (fill in with your need).

I am also a 20 year certified Project Manager who lives and dies by schedules, task lists, estimating cost and effort, measuring performance and managing a budget.

1. Break a big job down into smaller achievable goals.
2. Write down the work and think about the priority (do jobs in a particular order).
3. Post your schedule on this forum (now you're accountable).

Give yourself every opportunity to be successful by doing proper planning. It is estimated that 2/3 of projects fail and the number one reason is lack of planning.

 

I go out to the shop, look around and think about what I've got to get done, and within a short time my DW pops in with a hot mug of tea and a "so, what are we doing today?" in her typical cheery voice.

I don't really have much choice to be non-motivated. Since she retired I've become her hobby. I admit we get a lot done together and I am very thankful for her help and willingness to spend time with me and on "our" projects, but there are some days when just sitting in a lawn chair in the shop, good tunes on the radio, and a hot rod mag in hand, would go over real well.

What is kind of funny is some days I can't get more than a couple of hours in and I run out of steam so I head in to sit down for a bit and get my energy level back up, then go out and she's still working.

I think I'm kinda lucky.........