[Story] I stopped trying to “get motivated” and started tracking my dopamine crashes instead.

I spent years in that cycle of getting super hyped at 2 AM, planning my entire life, and then doing absolutely nothing the next day. I thought I was lazy or broken.

I read somewhere that 'motivation is unreliable, habit is dependable', but habits are hard when you feel like a shit. So I tried a different approach: instead of forcing myself to work when I "should," I started tracking why I felt drained.

I used the breeze app strictly to log my energy levels and mood alongside my activities for about two weeks. The data was actually embarrassing. I realized my "lack of motivation" wasn't laziness – it was a predictable crash 3 hours after eating sugar, or immediately after doom-scrolling news.

Once I saw the pattern visually, it wasn't about 'willpower' anymore. It was just logic. I cut the triggers, and the motivation naturally came back because I wasn't sabotaging my own energy.

If you're stuck, stop trying to force it. Just track your crashes first. You can't fix a bug in the code if you don't look at the logs.