Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
IMO this makes the most important point at the very end. “Being disciplined” itself is a consequence of motivation, or is effectively that. Building <i>habits</i> however, requires very little discipline or motivation so long as you build them strategically - I.e. start so small it’d be ridiculous <i>not</i> to do it regardless of how motivated or disciplined you are.<p>And by “start small” I mean “floss one tooth per night for 3 months to build a flossing habit” small. Let your good habits progressively and slowly consume more time, similar to what bad habits do.<p>For all intents and purposes you should just assume both discipline and motivation are completely mythical and you should construct a system of high-leverage habits to obviate the need for them. You don’t rise to the level of your talents/motivation/discipline, you fall to the level of your habits.