Emotional fuel

Have lots of thoughts in my mind on a whole host of topics in the last few weeks but just haven't got the motivation,  inspiration or the emotional fuel to put those into words...

On a somewhat related note...

In life everything is about maximizing value or minimizing effort...

Habits are to minimize cognitive effort, you do the things which don't really matter all that much in a repetitive way, because well its just easy to do it that way and theres no benefit of hyperoptimizing. Instead,  you focus your cognitive effort on more important things

Frameworks and heuristics are to minimize compute effort. You can't think of all problems from first principles, so you go by things that you have formed in your brains as rules before,  so that you don't have to overspend compute effort unless you want to super optimize for accuracy

Discipline and patience is an opportunity loss minimizing strategy. You don't want to give up on something that maybe working too soon ,and give up on the benefits of compounding. Even though at any point of time you may actually find better alternatives in a purely rational sense.

Faith is similar except that is with things that you don't even know will work. To just stay the course , and to do things and to hope. 

Is there any trait similarly to avoid the need for emotional fuel,  for inspiration,  for motivation? To even just get started on things damn it...

Or am I asking this question because I just lack all of the above that i mentioned - habits, frameworks,discipline, patience nd faith,  and waste too much of my cognitive effort in that process...

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