I have, like everyone else in here, experienced the same thing. I certainly go through periods of lesser motivation. Things that I find help me get through it

I have, like everyone else in here, experienced the same thing. I certainly go through periods of lesser motivation. Things that I find help me get through it: A) Momentum. Once I get started I don't stop for as long as possible, including working late into the night. Sometimes momentum can carry through to the next day if you maintain focus. B) Deadlines and dependancies. I just wrote a project for my brother in about a week of my spare time. If that was a personal project, it would have taken a month of time. I had someone else relying on me, and had a ridiculously tight deadline, and it pushed me to ignore all problems and just do it. C) Mental health. It is an issue we ignore - almost everyone has discussed physical activity, and I believe this is certainly important in mental health - but not many people suggest focusing on the mind. There are many things you can do to temporarily improve mental health, like travel, meet new people, exercise, etc; improving mental health fundamentally is very difficult. I won't go into too many details, but essentially you need to understand yourself, your passions and desires, your faults to really know why you act in certain ways. All that being said, I suffer the same issues on a regular basis.