what you're about to read is anecdotal, subjective, and comes from personal experience. Take what resonates with you. Sometimes it is what it is, just accept i

what you're about to read is anecdotal, subjective, and comes from personal experience. Take what resonates with you. Sometimes it is what it is, just accept it and do something else. From my experience, the factors below highly impact this behavior: 1. Is the project too big to chew on? 2. Are your tasks very well defined and the finish line is clear? 3. Is the expected outcome for fun or you're hoping to make it big when it's done? 4. Is the project solving a problem you care about dearly or a general problem you're trying to solve to make a business out of it? 5. The project is very motivating, everything is going well but you're unaware that you're working on a very uninteresting task that's part of the project and you're chewing on it slowly as a result. When you sit on the chair and you feel it's kicking you off to get up instead of sucking you in then probably there's a conflict of interest between what you think you should work on and what your brain is interested in working on. Do consider the possibility that you're probably assigning yourself a boring project or a project that deep down you don't care about or it's too big and overwhelming. As we gain more experience and pile up failures, it becomes more challenging to get on a project. From my experience, the best projects I worked on are ones that have no monetary value nor related to launching some sort of a business and I am working on them just because they have challenging and very interesting problems for my taste, or they solve a problem I face.