Ways to Stay Motivated When Every Day Is the Same as Yesterday

It can be tough to stay motivated when all the days blend into one. You might feel lucky to have a job, yet still struggle to concentrate on tasks or maintain enthusiasm for your work. Even responsibilities you once enjoyed can lose their sizzle.

This is especially true if your job seems superfluous to the Covid-19 crisis. “Most of us are not searching for the cure for coronavirus, and we’re not care workers,” says Bruce Daisley, a senior executive at Twitter who wrote Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job. Still, he says, work can be a good distraction: “If we can maintain a healthy relationship with our jobs, it can be a way to keep our minds off of some of the stressful things we’re going through.”