Why do we find it so difficult to motivate ourselves?

It is prudent and safe to assume that we will spend athat we, through our professional lives, only encounter
significant part of our lives dealing with tasks that dosituations and tasks that provide us with such
not particularly appeal to us. It is also safe to assumeopportunities.
that more often than not, we will find ourselvesSo why do we find it so difficult to motivate ourselves
despondent and with less motivation in the face ofto apply our skills and abilities with the same
such situations and tasks.enthusiasm and intent to those tasks that we hate
It would be foolhardy to deny that given a completelydoing?
free hand and infinite options, we would only do theThe first step is analyzing and understanding why we
things we love. It would, be even more naive to hopefind a particular task dislikable.