Whenever I feel sluggish at work, I take a few minutes to re-watch the hacking scene from the motion picture "Swordfish". This is enough to get the adrenaline going and gets me over the hump. Adopting this routine has had big positive effects: Finagling JSON/YAML, troubleshooting time zone bugs, performing hundreds of Docker builds, and performing daily maintenance on CI pipelines has been positively affected.