I don't know what it says about me (maybe that I'm a people pleaser) but I've had motivational ruts in the past be completely unblocked just by someone for whom I have some regard asking me for help. They say "can you make a tool that does X" and all of a sudden I'm deeply motivated, working for days or even weeks like I'm obsessed. Once sufficient motivation occurs, in my experience the creativity and productivity parts just tend to follow. It's not an unpleasant experience, but kind of a weird mechanism. I wish I could harness that to do stuff for myself, but that seems to be much harder.