Possible idea here of a “motivation treadmill”, where we can only motivate to do hard things by “using up” the supply of good things to link them to. (Relatedly: the demotivating ideas of “nothing motivates me” or “nothing I try works”).
I’m not particularly knowledgeable about self-help and whatnot, but I generally like Nate Soares’s advice on this kind of stuff, e.g. finding things you really care about, avoiding weak generic motivations like “I will do X because I’m supposed to”, etc.
Possible idea here of a “motivation treadmill”, where we can only motivate to do hard things by “using up” the supply of good things to link them to. (Relatedly: the demotivating ideas of “nothing motivates me” or “nothing I try works”).
I’m not particularly knowledgeable about self-help and whatnot, but I generally like Nate Soares’s advice on this kind of stuff, e.g. finding things you really care about, avoiding weak generic motivations like “I will do X because I’m supposed to”, etc.