I NEED ME A MOOD BANK!!!
Just imagine if you could store up your extra good mood — a secret reserve you could tap into when you feel low. I’d hoard the free-floating motivation, high spirits, focus, and determination I get after reading a new self-help book, especially those on neuroscience and the untapped potential of human creativity.
You know that feeling — like you could take on the world and win. Your mind instantly designs a new life: 8 hours of sleep every night, up at 4 a.m., 3 hours of study or coding before the world wakes up. Eating clean. Exercising daily. Quitting social media. A complete life makeover.
But reality checks in. You realise to get 8 hours of sleep and still wake at 4 a.m., you’d need to be in bed by 8 p.m. To avoid screens two hours before bed, your social and work day would need to end at 6 p.m. To sleep light, your last meal would be at 3 p.m. That 20-minute workout suddenly eats up an hour. Before the week is over, your perfect plan collapses and you feel like a failure.
The same thing happens in web development. You get an idea for a website. It’s brilliant. In your head, it’s clean, simple, and game-changing. You imagine investors fighting to be part of it. Maybe it’ll even bring world peace.
And then you start building.
It’s harder than you expected. Messier than you planned. The rush you felt when the idea struck starts to fade. Bugs pop up. That “simple” button design becomes a battle. Sometimes, even if you manage to implement all your planned features, the result still doesn’t match what you imagined.
Here’s the truth: whether you’re overhauling your life or building a website, the high is never what gets you to the finish line. Systems, habits, and steady work do.
The initial spark is just the match — you still need to feed the fire. And in both life and coding, the real edge comes from your willingness to adapt, change, unlearn, relearn, and keep believing in your project long after the excitement fades.
Nothing beats flexibility — and building, one block of code at a time.
