Some days I just feel like rolling around, other days I am more keen to push to try more or do something I used to do. It really is just a day by day thing, but nothing is as much of a challenge as my mental catalog of all the tricks and things I used to be able to do twenty to thirty years ago. I accept that I am "well over the hill" but every day I can be on a skateboard is one more day of good times, so I take what I can get and try not to be anything other than appreciative of whatever I still have left.
Getting angry, bitter or upset doesn't help anything, so I realised a while back, but that still doesn't stop it boiling over sometimes, more often when I want to do things and for whatever reason I just cannot get myself together enough to do it.
Those days, the quicker I work that out, the better, so if I am out somewhere at a spot or park skating, just go easy more so than try to push myself, or leave and go somewhere else that is more just a roll around or mellow spot.
I have become very good at finding the most simple or small thing in any given place and having more fun on that than trying something harder and not getting it, so at the end of the day, I am not worried at all about what I have achieved more recently.
Having a cruiser board handy helps too, so given I always drive anywhere, there is always a mix of boards in the car.