I spent ages on the current tune I'm working on, trying to make it "me"

All to often I throw some things together, find that they work and then build a tune around it. By the end of it you hate it, because you never really tried to make it.

Spent ages this time rejecting ideas that I wasn't that into and refining ideas I thought had merit, rather than just settling for something that worked.

Much more satisfying that way. I like making tracks that are the sum of my influences and my mood as I make it.