There’s this quiet moment when you realize the thing you used to love—the work that once made you feel alive—now just feels like… work. Deadlines replace excitement. To-do lists replace ideas. You catch yourself ticking boxes instead of creating something that feels like you.
For a long time, I mistook that feeling for burnout. I thought maybe I’d lost my spark, or worse, maybe I’d fallen out of sync with what I set out to create. But what I’ve learned is this: sometimes it’s not the work that changes. It’s you.
Growth doesn’t always look like motivation. Sometimes it looks like boredom. Sometimes it looks like frustration. It’s easy to think you’ve fallen out of love with your craft when really, you’ve just been doing it the same way for too long.
Rediscovery happens in small, unglamorous ways—trying something new, breaking your own rules, giving yourself permission to not be perfect. The spark doesn’t disappear. It just gets buried under repetition.
Lately, I’ve been rebuilding that relationship with my work. Less pressure, more play. Less “what’s trending,” more “what feels right.” The love for what you do doesn’t always roar—it often returns as a whisper.
Cheers to finding it again.
