I am a living, breathing example of motivation.

The colleague who always seems on top of things usually has a suspiciously clear desk. One file open. Notifications switched off months ago. Nothing standing between them and the task that needs a decision first.

People read that as character. Mostly it is arrangement. They removed the four small obstacles the rest of us have to climb over before starting, and they did it once, weeks ago, on a quiet afternoon.

Being an example of motivation is largely a matter of being unusually hard to distract, which is something you assemble in advance rather than summon on the day.