Motivation to accomplish things is good, but it should not be a goal on itself. IMO the goal should be fulfillment and contentment.
Now and then, evaluation points in life emerge, where you question the 'why'. Those periods can be quite loaded with emotions of feeling lost or being insecure of where to go next. They might greatly shift perspective and hence your course of life.
To me, everything is feedback loops: you pour in energy and you get positive energy back. In that sense, the system is self sustained. However it is fragile as well, because over time, you tend to need more and more back to provide feelings of contentment.
Motivation is like love and relationships, you need to work, sometimes very hard, to sustain them.
I play musical instruments for two decades now. And I still enjoy it, because it puts my mind into a state that is almost flow like. Same for programming. So I just like how it feels when I do it, for the most part at least. That means sometimes I just program for fun and open ended without any goal at all. Same goes for music. 90% of my playing outside my band is just playing without a plan.
This is why I am good at those things — I spent a lot of my time doing them and I did so because I enjoy it.
Let yourself play, find the aspects that interest you about a topic and go wild. No need for a goal, thiose will come eventually. First you need to find joy in what you're doing.
And if you don't find any of that, maybe your motivation is just money, fame or whatever and thst might be ok as well, if you're happy with doing a thing you don't like.
Now and then, evaluation points in life emerge, where you question the 'why'. Those periods can be quite loaded with emotions of feeling lost or being insecure of where to go next. They might greatly shift perspective and hence your course of life.
To me, everything is feedback loops: you pour in energy and you get positive energy back. In that sense, the system is self sustained. However it is fragile as well, because over time, you tend to need more and more back to provide feelings of contentment.
Motivation is like love and relationships, you need to work, sometimes very hard, to sustain them.