How do you find the motivation?

I’ve been playing for about 16 months. And I enjoy it, I like being able to play songs and stuff. But I can rarely find the motivation to sit down and practice. I have a 30 minute lesson once a week and my piano teacher will give me 2-3 songs to practice each week. 1-2 songs out of an old fashioned piano booklet and 1 song which is separate and more fun and one I’ll actually know. I’m only 16 and he’s a lot older so I don’t know majority of the songs he’s asking me to play. And I find myself getting to the last day before my piano lesson and trying to cram in the practice I should of been doing. He’s given me one of my favourite songs to play atm so as you can imagine I’ve been playing that one a lot but when it comes to practicing the other older songs that I’ve never heard of I just give up. I don’t like these songs he’s giving me, I’ve never heard of them, he wants me to practice them and then I’ll literally never play it again so in the moment it just seems like a waste of time and I just don’t play them.

I’m not playing piano because I want a career in it or anything, I’m not some crazy talented musician, but I just want to play it more for fun, as a hobby, as something I enjoy, (and I don’t really enjoy many things 😭) but in the nicest way possible, he just kind of sucks the fun out of it more and more for me.

I do realise that I am somewhat the problem here. But what makes you motivated to play? Have you got some sort of routine to when and how long you play? I think I should have a routine to it maybe?