Whenever I get stuck, I will start chipping away at technical debt. This is usually simple refactoring work, cleaning up features or fixing bugs that result in a cleaner system. If I do this enough, things seem to magically get unstuck.

It’s a little like cleaning out a clogged drain. You start pulling out muck until the water starts to flow, and it will eventually start to flow on its own. Then you can jump back in the flow.

Refactoring your code until it is “perfect” is a good exercise. When I was starting out, I would refactor endlessly. That took a lot of time, but eventually I started writing code that didn’t need to be refactored immediately.