Use the Chameleon Effect
When you lack motivation, sit next to a focused co-worker you don't know that well. This will help you because:
- You feed off the other person's concentration: we tend to copy the posture, gestures, facial behaviors of people around us.
- You'll try to be a good role model: we try to impress the people we know the least.
- It gets you out of your usual environment.
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