. . . I think mood has a bell curve relationship with how hard you're trying to set the mood. Like, say you have a graph, mood is Y axis, how hard you're working is X axis. Over on the left at zero effort, you have belching in front of the TV and yelling to the girl to fetch you a beer. No mood. As you put in effort, you can get a good mood going and the curve goes up towards the middle. But then going further to the right you get into the "obsessive effort to make everything perfect" territory and the paranoia and perfectionism ruin the mood so the curve goes back down again. You want to be in that sweet spot in the middle of the bell curve.