Motivation means creation of incentives to do something. To be successful in that, you need very few things: 1. You should know what you are going to achieve. That is, you should have SMART goal (see Wikipedia article "SMART criteria"). Unclear of definition of the goal may become the biggest obstacle: you will always try to avoid the uncertainty by switching to other activities. 2. The benefits must seem to you realistic and the path to them short. For example, if you set the goal as "build 1 billion dollar business in 5 years", it will be SMART, but will look like a fairy tale to you. Building MVP in 3 months won't make you richer, but you'll be rewarded with positive feeling of creating something working and useful, something that will enable you to go further. 3. Not doing what you want (let's call it "A") must be painful. If life is good enough and you won't be harmed by just living it, you'll probably will not start, because there's no real reason for it. Some people are saying that you'll need to move out from your zone of comfort - they are close to what you really need to do: you need to move your zone of comfort, not yourself. Imagine, how good life will be when A is done. Think, how bad is your life while A is not done. Now you have real incentive! But don't do that until you've done 1 and 2.