creative constipation, or the pain of not doing your best work. Creative constipation is exactly what it sounds like. We take in ideas and inspiration that get converted into aspirations, goals, and projects, and at a certain point, if we’re not pushing them out in the form of finished projects, they start to back up on us.

Employees do not all have clear goals and objectives, tied to direct business impact. • Late projects and tasks are the norm, not a rare occurrence. • Employees tend to wait passively if their progress has been halted by another employee’s failure to meet an expected timeline. • Responsibilities within work teams are unclear or contradictory. • Fai

Other people hold off entirely from starting on important projects or embarking on intimate relationships in the first place because they can’t bear the anxiety of having committed themselves to something that might or might not work out happily in practice.