jaredhalpert says take a break and he&#x27;s right. eigenrick says shake things up a bit and learn a new language he&#x27;s also right. Sebastienconcpt says get a fresh pair of eyes, he is also right.<p>You just need a jolt. If it&#x27;s feasible take vacation and build something fun in a brand new language that is really different from anything else you&#x27;ve ever used. Set goals like I&#x27;ll work on this no longer than X hours a day where X is small. Don&#x27;t set deadlines for completion. The goal here isn&#x27;t a finished product it&#x27;s to have fun tinkering with something that will break you out of your block. And pick a language with a welcoming but passionate community that can give your feedback on your code.<p>I do this all the time to keep myself fresh working on open source projects or playing with new things. It expands my toolbox and gives my brain a break from the constant legacy enterprise spaghetti-ware we so often work on.<p>And when it comes to your money earning work don&#x27;t discount the Just Works outcome. When you are glueing together legacy systems sometimes there is no &quot;beautiful and elegant&quot; solution. Sometimes due to time and legacy constraints your only option is duct-tape and bailing wire. Having an outlet to write more elegant stuff in your spare time can be a valuable sanity saver.<p>Side Note: I wonder if there are any good places online to have virtual design reviews done? Somewhere where the high level goals and constraints are listed and people comment on the best way to achieve them? Language and platform agnostic preferrably although some suggestions will inevitably work better in some languages than others.