How do you bring yourselves to do the tedious tasks?

I have been loving the game, love the complex realistic mechanics, and the real-life knowledge it gives me just for playing.

Every wipe I tell myself I will get the cool-looking handguards and high-end armor, and I will get into the labs and get those colorful keycards, but every wipe I lose the motivation to move past certain points. Why even spend hours if not days on quests if all progress will be gone in a few months?

The game is pretty hard already, some quests I've seen on the wiki are downright tortures, escape all maps without dying? Kill all bosses like ten times? "The collector"? I can't even dream of doing these BS just to do them all over again in a few months. The pain/reward ratio can't even train a dog properly.

The motivation to play is also reducing, I want to play, but I don't know what to play. The thought of losing all my progress is discouraging. I don't have a lot of time to play, if progress saves, I would be motivated since I know no matter how small the steps, I am moving forward steadily. Having a time budget is really killing the fun.

How do you all do it? Doing the same shit over and over again without getting tired?