So I've been busy as a bee lately.
Good. Perhaps you should do what I do when I get into a low spot.
A bottle of tequila, 2 bottles margarita mix, 1 bottle top shelf vodka, 2 bottles top shelf scotch, 4 cases beer, 1 bottle crown royal, 1 gallon orange juice, 3 cases Coke, an ounce of the best bud you can afford, and 2 weeks uninterrupted.
Get enough CBT (computer based training) to last you 80 hours. This is extremely easy with bittorrent, and for AM, the black ink project.
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The Black Ink Project - Presented by Jeremy Palmer of Quit Your Day Job.
Take/study the course(s), multiple times if necessary. Don't get hammered, just be comfortably numb. Dictate into a recorder or take notes with ideas you come up with.
Lock yourself in your office and just absorb what you're learning. It takes guys years to learn what you can easily pick up in 2 weeks of intensive self study. This is true for a lot of subjects.
I'm 99.999% confident I could ace the Windows server 2008 exams today if I wanted to because I spent 10 days a few weeks ago sitting next to a European pool, drinking, and studying my ass off. Do the same with the Black Ink project course. It's not the catch-all guaranteed way to bang out a million a year, but it teaches the basics, which all of us need to refresh on once in a while.