In The Zone

I need to find something that would get me "in the zone" for things I have or want to do. Y'know? When your teacher gives you some time-draining assignment that you just can't help but dread at the mere thought doing? Or when you feel like writing something, anything at all, but you just can't seem to find the right things to say or the energy to say that right thing? Or lets take something different, you want to go running but something's etching into you that makes you completely lethargic to the point you don't even want to put on your shoes but you just sit there on the living room couch dangling a shoe by it's laces? Yeah, that's the thing. I need something to get me in the zone for things. Some kind of magical "shtuff". I mean, think about it. Popeye had his spinach. Superman uses the energy of the sun. What else? Who else? Ugh. You get what I'm saying. lol. Eh, I don't know. What gets you "in the zone"?