The people you envy did not wake up different. They woke up on schedule. That is the whole trick, and it is unbearably boring, which is exactly why it keeps working — boredom is a filter almost nobody clears voluntarily.
Motivation is a mood, and moods are terrible managers. They arrive late, they take long lunches, and they quit the moment the work stops being flattering. A system does not need convincing. It does not care that you slept badly or that the group chat was funnier than your to-do list.
You do not need more motivation. You need a smaller first move and a fixed time to make it.
So shrink it. Not the goal — the entry point. Ten minutes, one page, one set, one call. Small enough that refusing it would be embarrassing. Then protect the hour the way you would protect someone else's appointment, because that is the part you are actually bad at: you keep promises to strangers and break them with yourself.
Twenty minutes a day is one hundred and twenty hours a year. Nobody applauds hour four. Hour four is where everyone leaves. Stay through the part with no audience and you will find the thing you were calling talent was mostly attendance.
Tomorrow morning, before your phone gets a vote: one page, one set, one honest sentence to the person you have been avoiding. That is it. Do it for a week and stop asking whether you feel like it.