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i like to throw on some music whenever i go to make something so that way if i suddenly loose inspiration i can draw some from the music and if i need to pause i can just jam for a sec

Psychologists say that the lack of motivation is an indicator that you do not need to do it and the subconscious understands that =) To understand exactly why you do not feel the motivation you certainly need to think about it. And of course read the special literature on the topic. For example, here is a whole list of essays on the theme of motivation https://samploon.com/free-essays/motivation/ you can read here and learn more about it yourself. I hope that I can help you with this, because I used to have such problems myself and I’m glad that I managed to solve them, and thanks to this knowledge I was able to write even about motivation good notes.

It happens to me way too often, personally I just wait till I'm more in the mood. Looking through pinterest helps tho (or my phone's gallery bc I save a ton of stuff)

the first thing i think you should start with when trying to get an idea on what to make is to figure out the basics of what you want it to be. that sounds a bit confusing, but what i mean is try to narrow down if you want to make a single, cuff, charm, bag, clothing/accessory, etc and move from there. if you can’t decide, put all your options in a random picker like a wheel online to decide one for you.

after you figure that out, you can start doing more narrowing depending on what you are going to make. for example, if you are going to make a cuff, you could pick out what kind of cuff you want it to be. it can be something that you have made before, or a pattern that you’ve never tried. i have a personal playlist on youtube with patterns i’d like to try in the future, so i can easily save them for later

once you’ve figured that out, you can start to decide on things like themes and/or colors. some things you can theme kandi after are fictional characters, animals, food, plants, pride flags, music artists, etc! if you just want something with nice colors and can’t decide on any, you can look at color palettes online and find one that you have the beads for. taking out only any possible beads you may want to use while coming up with a design is also helpful, so you won’t get distracted by beads you wouldn’t want to use in the first place

those are the steps i typically go through when brainstorming ideas, but it doesn’t always have to be that formulaic! sometimes just working as you go will leave you with amazing kandi you wouldn’t have thought of creating in the first place, but it can also be demotivating if you get stuck and don’t know where to go from there

another thing you can do that doesn’t require as much planning is just scrolling through recent designs on here, or finding designs on other sites that are free to use/recreate

i hope this helps!

idk it happens to me to but I jus look at Pinterest