Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
You have plenty of ideas. They keep coming to you – ideas for books, your job, your business. People are jealous of your imagination and all that it produces, in awe of your imagination, or just wonder "where it all comes from."
What these people don't get is that there's a darkside to a powerful imagination. You have too many ideas, and it can be distracting. You can't apply them all. You worry you're going to miss the "right one"
Welcome to Idea Burnout.
I'm certain you've been asked by others (and asked yourself), what your career is 'about" or "what you do." If you haven't, chances are you're reading this blog by accident.
Anyway, when you're asked (or ask yourself) that question, I'm sure you can spout forth a list. There's what you do, who you interact with, and what you don't do. We often are aware of the former, but I find people will often go into lists of what they don't do, what their career is not about, with surprising ease. It's almost as if we are more aware of the positives than the negatives.
Previous: Doing what you like.
Are you making something you care about? Does your job or career produce the books you love, the services you care about, the games you like? Does your job make things meaningful to your geeky or fannish heart, even if what you do may not seem like something a raging fan, nerd, geek, or otaku would do?
If so, then you've had a valuable lesson – that sometimes you can find fulfillment in being a profane not by what you do directly, but by the results of that action.
If you don't have this situation . . . then read on