Hi Kurt,

This is my first post here - GREAT forum by the way.

This thread really hit home with me because I have just reached total boredom point with a system that I have worked on for about six months. I telephoned my best mate and 'volunteer business trauma psychologist' today and explained how I was going to spend less time on the recent project and a bit more on revisiting old ones. Then I found all the BS reasons why it was financially wise.

A few hours later after a fair bit of soul searching while drinking a cold beer and watching waves breaking, I felt like ringing him again and explaining that I had got it wrong. But of course I didn't because no-one enjoys admitting to doing a 180 in the space of three hours.

And then I found this thread.

Whilst soul-searching earlier I realised that I really enjoy the process of finding a (potentially) profitable system, tweaking it, finding more streamlined ways of working it etc...

And NOW, I realise why it is that once the system is tweaked, tuned, and ready to be unleashed simply by following your advice above and repeating the process over and over - I want to move on to something else.

Because once I've MASTERED and CONQUERED the problem - it holds no interest for me. But the reason I did the whole project in the first place is in order to enjoy the proceeds of seeing the finished article kicking ass. Self-sabotage...

It's the same problem I have seen many others have in their relationships. When they are in awe of someone they are very keen (they act keen to please while masking (and not realising) their keenness is merely to conquer) but as soon as they have mastered and conquered that person, they have zero interest - even if it would be the wisest decision in the world to continue their keenness at that point.

Getting back to business - it will be a lot easier in future to deal with the boredom knowing that it's part and parcel of the journey to success.

I'm glad it's not just me who gets BORED with the things we have to do to be successful. Your post really helped. Thanks.

ExRat