If you really just want to do something else, then maybe you should be doing that? And if in response to this you think "oh no, I can't do that because XYZ", th

If you really just want to do something else, then maybe you should be doing that? And if in response to this you think "oh no, I can't do that because XYZ", then maybe that XYZ is the motivation you are looking for. You won't shitcan your schedule if you have a good internal reason for doing those tasks, because then you wouldn't get what you want. My current motivation is that I want to grow recurring revenue by enough that I can move to a new apartment in Tokyo, which I have already picked out should I ever hit my goal. The tasks I pick for each day, I try my best to think "how will doing this task help me get there?". And sometimes the motivation is that whatever I happen to be doing is just interesting / fun in itself, where no grander goal is necessary to work on that.