Motivation is a strange thing
jasonleow • 1 Apr 2026 •
Been a year since I started on my SaaS Canned Support and wanted to launch it in March last year.
But didn’t.
That’s how stuck I am.
Yet for an existing project like my Carrd plugins, I can keep shipping every month. No issues. No dragging feet. No missed deadlines.
Why?
Motivation is such a strange thing.
Both involve coding. Both are software projects. Both require marketing. Both require grinding. Both take up my free time outside of freelance. Both needs extra effort. Both needs motivation.
But yet one moves along steadily while the other languishes.
WHY?!
Motivation is a strange thing.
Comments
@Winkletter Hmmm not gonna lie, yeah there’s always a thought in back of my mind that the new thing is untested, and so ROI is uncertain on what limited time I have… but I always wondered if that’s just excuses
Is there a goal conflict? For example, you want to try something new, but you only work on things you are relatively sure will be successful?