Day-to-day motivation is easy: My company is my job, if I don't work on it it will fail, and there will be no one to blame for that but myself. Work when you

Day-to-day motivation is easy: My company is my job, if I don't work on it it will fail, and there will be no one to blame for that but myself. Work when you work. Rest when you rest. Play when you play. If you're too unfocused to work, don't waste that time: Rest instead and put the hours in when you're refreshed later. Funding was easy enough: Set aside as much as you can each month and invest it against the market index. In a few years you'll have a nest egg which can see you through a good period of modest living without a single penny of revenue. It really doesn't take a lot to support yourself if you focus on the essentials, and knowing you've a good buffer to see you through to profitability takes a lot of the pressure (and distraction) off of paying your bills. Immodest living can come later -- you'll be too busy building up your business to live rich anyhow. Business ideas were a snap: They magically come while you're working for others (and building up your nest egg for self-funding). Just pay attention to your surroundings and identify where there are unmet needs (those can often be measured by the volume of workplace profanity). Think on those and consider solutions you might put together yourself.