Motivation.. or lack there of...

This week has been a struggle in the motivation department. I had a stressful start to the week and then got a little sick with being congested and to top it off on Wednesday I got a bruised face by getting hit in the face with a volleyball at volleyball. Thats a long story of bad blocking, someone else calling the ball and obviously not getting it and me not paying enough attention to get my hands up fast enough, oh and a crazy asian hitting. To me the only really bad part was how much a jerk he was afterwards about it, but with that team not surprised.

My problem for this week has been motivating myself to overcome these and get going. I have been great at avoiding what needs to be done by coming up with other things to do or simply not getting anything done. Neither of which exactly improves my life, mood or motivation and often detracts from all of those.

So I have come up with this concept, I am going to reward myself. For instance, I really don't feel like going to the gym today because I still have a bit of a headache and to be honest it just sounds like way more work than I feel like putting in, but if I go I will have reached my goal of workouts for the week and therefore should reward myself, I think that will be going to the movies! As far as my daily "chores" for stuff around the house, that is going to take a bit more motivation and a bit more of a reward. I need to go to the laundromat, because I have several things that don't fit in my normal washer/dryer that need to be cleaned, needless to say I truly hate the laundromat, it goes against well everything in my being to go. So I am going to have to come up with a good reward for this one, any suggestions?

Also what do you do to overcome your lack of motivation? I could definitely use some pointers for future days when the rewards just don't do it!