Runing only on motivation as a fuel will leave you depleted. Motivation can be created only 3 ways. Seeing your improvement, seeing something you like, most powerful motivator is boredom. Its super easy to lose motivation if you overfill your brain with distractions. The brain is lazy by default, allot of people me included suffer from procrastination. This stems from comparison, jealousy and a difficulty to satisfy yourself, because your skills and taste never go hand in hand.