Some things have made a difference for me: - Working on side projects that have less overlap with work and scratch technical and creative itches that aren't a

Some things have made a difference for me: - Working on side projects that have less overlap with work and scratch technical and creative itches that aren't a part of my day job. - Getting in the habit of sitting down to do some small task every day. Some days that turns into a multi-hour super-productive hack fest, sometimes it's writing a piece of copy and that's it. Now that I'm in that habit, I put in a really productive session about 2x per week on average, but I try to not care about that statistic. - Setting easily achievable goals every week, and trying to consistently surpass them (examples: add an 'about' section, write a query) - Getting serious about working out and eating mostly right fixed the afternoon doldrums for me. I normally do weights and cardio in the morning before work and a jog/yoga/swimming after.