@Pinpoint, you brought up some great points. Yes, perhaps I need to set more concrete long term goals both in my personal realm and career wise.

@Goddamn - dude, can you explain more what you mean by the glass being half full please? I think it's an excellent point.

Guys,

I am going to approach the question a little differently. I feel the question we are trying to ask is: What ultimately makes us lose motivation?

Guys, in general I can totally relate to know what you mean. On some days my motivation is completely flat also. It really worries me. Especially at work, I can't afford to have a 'flat' motivation. But I struggle to find something within me to grab to move myself forward. Sometimes I wonder what is wrong.

I know that whenever I have gone to Nepal and have been in places that are familiar with me--at my home, and have visited with relatives and friends, I get re-motivated. I have felt re-energized. My batteries get "re-juiced" It is almost like I 're-realize' who I am and what it is that I need to do.

I have not understood why this happens when I am in Nepal or around my relatives. Why is it that when I am in places and people I am familiar with in my childhood that I feel so re-energized? It is almost like my body instinctively knows it's place of familiarity. It's almost like being instinctively in contact with people and places that are familiar with turns me on. The place and people around me tell me who I am and what I am supposed to do.

So in that way, I think that living in America for too long can be a problem. In Nepal, your role in society, who you are, what your dharma is, is communicated back to. In America it is not. In Nepal, social expectations is very heavy there and is constantly reinforced on you from all sides. You are very conscious of who you are in family circles and what you have to do to remain worthy of respect. You are aware of your role in the family in relation with everyone--older than you, younger than you and of the opposite gender. There is a very strict protocol.
Through festivals and rituals, all the above is reinforced.

In America, there is no such pressure. Anything goes here. There is so much open-mindedness that eventually you lose your sense of self--and your motivation. That is how I feel. 
You cannot be everything to every one and identify with all things in all places and still hope to retain your core pure self that you had when you were a child. That is how I feel.