Unsucking a sucky stuck day

Feeling stuck today.

With coding.
With Twitter.
With writing.
With freelance.
With EVERYTHING.

When stuck, what do you do?

I usually try a few things:

• Act on the smallest, easiest thing you know. I know I got to write this post in the morning. But felt stuck. So I went and did something else first. Coding something easy was a lower barrier. Perhaps those tiny acts will unlock writing. Stir up some thoughts that would give me an idea on what to write. Similarly for Twitter. Didn’t know what to tweet, so engaged with others first. Chit chat, have some fun, some laughs, and the spark will come.
• Get up, walk around. When you sit down, everything slows down, stops moving. Body juices, muscles, blood, ideas, thoughts – all stops flowing. Sometimes the idea is already there but blocked, but once I get up, it moves into view.
• Find random inspiration from random sources. I use my @golifelog Twitter account for just that. Following a random bunch of weird but interesting accounts not related to writing, serves as random inspo for me. A creative version of doomscrolling, so to speak. A cool picture here, a meme video there, a catchy tweet in between – nothing is deemed unworthy of inspo. And very often, that’s exactly what I needed.

What else do you usually do to get unstuck on a sucky stuck day?