I've been finding that in order to motivate myself for programming I have to not think of it in terms of, "sigh, a basic GUI front end for MySQL....". I have to

I've been finding that in order to motivate myself for programming I have to not think of it in terms of, "sigh, a basic GUI front end for MySQL....". I have to make myself identify some interesting problem, or new skill which challenges and interests me. That way I feel motivated to work through the easy stuff I've done before because then I can work on the interesting problem.