I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.