At some point the integration of here and now with the concept of progress has to fully occur, and that can take time, as our dualistic though patterns create a sense of time and a sense of progress and all of that, and trying to figure out how to see those as just thoughts happening now can take some practice and some insight.
Daily mindfulness of activities, which gets mentioned a lot in these contexts, really IS a key thing to work on, as obvious as it sounds, and if you can't get in all the cushion time you want, realize that you are probably awake and doing things for way more than 30 hours/week, hopefully, and that all of that really can be good practice, including all the little periods that don't take high cognitive function (which doesn't initially lend itself as well to sensate mindfulness: that comes later for most), such as brushing your teeth and opening the door, etc.
As to motivation: you have to find it within yourself, obviously, and you should consider how the sense of social accountability figures into it, as in the end, you and Reality have to merge, and do this independent of any external anything, of any other person, of anyone else's considerations, of any social construct, and so the question more is, how do you allow reality to settle into itself, into the tension with itself, and to synchronize properly with all of the questions you ask, realizing that those questions are the thing itself.
