In short: Check institution rules: Check your institution's guidelines. Say you've used it: Be clear about how you use AI. Be radically transparent: Share links to AI conversations. Don't use it only for text generation: Use AI to interview you, or to write while walking.
In short: focus on what you can do today. Ask yourself why am I not less motivated? This question reveals all the deep motivation you have.
In short: No. There just good scopes and bad scopes for a topic. The topic isn’t what’s important.
In short: decompose the different parts of your topic (who, where, touchpoints, issues, etc) and then remix them to create new focused topic ideas. From there, start working topic on a few that resonate and see which one has more potential.
In short: start with a passion, find a problem to work and make it very specific. Be positively lazy: work with your network.
In short: Create a focused topic, for example by focusing on a specific location. Then list and remind yourself all the reasons why this topic is important to you.
In short: make the topic as narrow as possible. Define with whom, where and for what part of the experience.
In short: up, back, forward. Feed-up: Share what's the goal. Feed-back: Share how it's going. Feed-forward: Share what's needed next to achieve the goal.