Yeah, it's basically procrastination and avoiding the routine tasks which are in fact the most important. Success doesn't come from a single major breakthrough that happens overnight. It comes from taking consistent action on the "small" tasks that most people don't want to do.
What is your creative process and motivation to continue?
I found that "motivation" isn't the answer. If you wait to feel motivated and pumped, you'll never get anything done. It's
discipline that you need. The discipline to do the stuff that is important, when it needs to be done, whether you feel like it or not. That skill of discipline is the common trait of all successful people. Everyone else just talks a big game and wastes their time.
1)You have to identify your goals.
2)Then from those goals, identify the tasks that will actually move you towards those goals the quickest. Also identify all the other related tasks that are tempting but don't really make much of a difference. You need to make sure you don't waste your time on those tasks. - You'll probably find that there are only 2-3 important tasks that will really "move the needle" towards your goals and there'll be about 7-8 tasks that hardly make a difference but are very time-consuming. This is called the "pareto principle" Basically 80% of your results will come from only 20% of the tasks. (the 2 important ones) - Inversely, 80% of the tasks (the bs timewasting ones) will only generate 20% of the desired results.
3) Make sure, you spend most of your time doing the 2-3 tasks that really move the needle. If you do that consistently, you will make progress. It's all about working smartly and productively.
To apply this to YouTube - It's simple. Your goal is to grow a channel.
The productive tasks (20%) that will move the needle are:
-Making excellent quality videos that you upload consistently like clockwork
-Practising good SEO on those videos (keyword research, good metadata)
-Good thumbnails
And all the bs tasks that are fun and make you feel good but are a huge waste of time (80%):
-Spending hours every week changing a banner, logo, intro.
-Wasting hours on reddit and social media.
-Watching other people's videos.
-Spending hours every week commenting on other people's vids.
-Spending hours every week trying to promote your videos on 3 rd party websites.
-Sub4sub
-Collabs and trying to get shoutouts.
etc
etc
Basically, it come down to making amazing videos with a good thumbnail and good SEO and doing it consistently week in week out and not getting distracted by all the other bs. It's all about taking action on only the things that matter and being laser-focused.
There is a book I recommend that helped me a lot with this:
Good luck.