how do you motivate yourself after achieving a tight deadline?

Sustaining motivation is very very difficult, as I feel :-) Stretching yourself to complete work on time, to keep ruminating on what else needs to be done, all this drains a lot of energy. There is a great high in meeting the deadline, it is almost euphoric, liberating, morale boosting. This is the way I felt when I met the Rounders tourny deadline. It was a huge challenge and it took a lot of time and effort on my part, but it is done now. Time to move on to new targets, new deadlines. But then I forgot the recharge part :-) Forgot that I need to take a break, first, just to keep myself sane. There are other things I love to do other than work. Like playing with Kush or reading books or watching movies. And so I took it easy this week, fixing bugs and managing releases, but I also read "The Circular Staircase" and watched Rann and Ishqia. The book was good, kind of outdated now with all the twists and turns of plot painfully obvious now, but nonetheless a good read. Rann was bad, while Ishqia was good :-) And just when it looked like life is good again came the loan repayment request and so back again to all those mind numbing calculations :-)