How do you stay motivated?

1. What Ryan Holiday calls "crop rotation": have a few projects and move between them. Sometimes spending an hour a day on project X increases the amount of time and energy you have for project Y because it improves your overall energy and motivation level.
2. Track tasks somewhere. A big motivation suck is when you don't quite know what you need to do. Just having it down somewhere makes it tangible, keeps you from spending brain cycles trying to remember it, and gives you a sort of control over it.
3. Take care of your body. It's easy to say and can be hard to do, but it's very important (or, at least, in my experience, fitness and motivation track each other well).

Good luck!

This is my own experience.

I will set a phased goal, such as completing the total website construction by December, this process is complicated and it is easy to lose motivation.

So I will establish divider goals:
complete the home page;
complete the news page;
complete the blog pagen
etc.,

These will be easier to achieve, which will give me more encouragement.

Hope it works for you.
Cheers!

So for me, It's essential to create a work-life balance. In that, what works is to first identify (other than work) what you enjoy doing and gives you that positive energy. A couple of things work for me:

1. Exertion. I realised soon that I need energy to stay motivated or focused, that is why sometimes I would feel motivated but then there would be a long period of just not feeling it anymore. So exertion, either through running, exercise etc, any physical activity takes out the pent up energy and rejuvenates the brain and gives me that spark.

2. Meditation. Even though I myself thought of it as something I'll just try and eventually go back to something I know more about. Meditation changes everything. During the tough lengthy coding runs it really showed me how amazing this simple yet effective lifestyle is.

3. Once you have your body and mind going and have learned to manage your energy one thing which is helps a TON is Keeping a journal so you divide and keep track and prioritise.

Just my two cents.

I organize my workspace and remember that quote from atomic habits that getting 1% better at anything every day , helps you get approx 37 times better at that thing by the end of the year. Thats my main motivation to kepe on going despite up and downs.

For me , I use some traditional ways to record what I need to do and what I've done before. To be specific, I like to use a notebook and Google Sheet to manage my daily work. on Notebook, I usually to write down "to do list". For example: "#1: Meeting with Mir Hassan - 9:30am #2 Review 3 blog articles and finish the final edit - 10:00-11:00 #3 reply to customers' inquiry email..." Of course, on my note book, I will also writen down some personal things (for example, exercise 6:00-6:30 am )

I usually use google sheets to do weekly and monthly reviews, counting the important things I did this week or this month. Compared with notebook, Google Sheets can be used to do some statistics more quickly. For example, I can know which task consumes the most of my time, which work was done efficiently...

A relatively quiet and comfortable space to work without distractions for hours on end is absolutely paramount. That will drive focus and focus, in and of itself will actually give you motivation as you can see work getting done. Getting distracted means no work done = massive demotivator for me.

I often wonder about all the genius inventors, scientists and philosophers of the past that could work and write huge tomes on their topic of interest. Firstly they all had enough money to do that, but secondly, there was no mobile phone anywhere in sight. The days before newspapers were invented must be a great time to focus lol

I listen to Samurai music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-C799i9j1c&t=2275s

I started using Notion, It is working great for me. Earlier I always found myself less structured and lazier. So I started with two pages in Notion one is Quick Access and another is Habit Tracker.

1. In Quick Access I usually write down all my upcoming tasks and important notes, which helps me access my task list and important notes in one place.
2. Habit Tracker rewards me after checking my daily habits like Exercise, Journaling, Reading, and Meditate. I created a system that after completing one task I will reward myself, which actually works for me.

One more I am using Google Calendar for my companies and personal work. I block times in the calendar in two manners One: Makers Time and another Managers Time. If I am having any discussion or meeting I mark it as a manager's time and if I am performing certain tasks alone so I mark it as a maker's time.

Also, write Emails to yourself and schedule them: If you found any task which is not urgent but may be important and want to complete after 2, 3 weeks then just write a detailed mail about that task to yourself and schedule it for next week to remind you about that task.

I am using a dedicated workspace for my work as working from home and a Pomodoro(25 Min work and 5 Mins break) method.