That feeling of being helpless

I suspect it is a feeling that most people working with any sort of project development encounters every once in a while. When building online communities, I have found that there are especially at two points I get stuck with this awful feeling. Right now, I am experiencing this feeling with Bloggst. My initial methods of promotion have been somewhat successful, but it’s growth has been slowing down a bit the past few days, leaving me with the feeling of not knowing exactly what I should do to avoid it from happening, and all in all just helpless.

I also remember having this feeling when working on a previous project, and I felt that the site I was working on had pretty much grown to its full potential. At that time, I felt that there was really nothing I could do that would make the site grow any further in terms of attracting new visitors, and increasing activity.

Of course this feeling is just a hoax, a deception of the mind if you will. When you come to this point, and get that helpless feeling, the easiest thing to do is to give out. Perhaps sell, sell, sell, and leave the responsibility to someone else. But that’s not nearly as rewarding as overcoming the obstacles put in front of you. So what I intend to do, is to more or less take a break from the project today (I already posted an article, so that’s covered), collect new strenght and motivation through rest and relaxation, and come back stronger than ever tomorrow. Hopefully a day’s rest will do me good, and maybe I can even come up with some new ideas that I can use for promotion. If not, that’s no crisis, because I know that what I’m already doing is working, and I just need to keep at it and be patient.

This was a somewhat random post from the inner workings of my complicated mind, but it would be nice to hear someone else’s take on these things as well, so feel free to comment if the situation seems familiar.