Motivation Help

How do you stay "motivated" to go to work? To clean your house? To wash your clothes? To do your dishes? To take out your trash?

For me, it all changed when I stopped looking at a healthier lifestyle as an option that I needed to be positively motivated to do, and just put it on the list of things I had to do because I'm a grown up and there's things we have to do unless we want to live in sub-standard conditions. Why should my physical health be less important and mandatory than my environment? Why would I clean my house, but not improve my food intake? Why bother making sure I don't like in external mess, while living every day with internal mess?

I clean up my house and after my pets because I don't want a stinky house. I go to work because I want to pay my bills, buy things I need and want and not have to struggle. I look after my diet and get exercise because the body I live in is actually far more important than anything else.

Stop looking for motivation, which is fickle and prone to evaporate when things get hard - motivation is an optional driver. Honestly - aim for determination and resignation. "I may not want to but I have to" is much harder to avoid when your mood gets low or life gets busy than "yay, I'm doing this because I want to!".