How to be innovative and how to keep yourself motivated

At work some times it could be possible that you end up working on certain project and may end up performing kinda similar tasks w/very little variations... So would that become monotonous ?

Do you think if it becomes monotonous..you may loose productivity to some extent and to help performing excellent at work, you need your motivation to be boost ?

Well, here is how I keep myself motivated - whether its work or cooking in kitchen. Coming from an Indian background, I almost end up preparing similar kinda breakfast with little variations...my family may get bored with same taste over and over again so I try to add different spices or motivate myself to try creative recipes for the same dish :) Well that truly helps!

I found below an interesting article published which helps self-motivation:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/management/article5883575.ece

JMeter or Selenium - Performance Testing of Web App

Some one recently asked me an interesting question "which tool better for performance testing for given web app - Selenium ? or any other open source ?"

Well here is my take