Good points.
I have found there is a need to care or desire. This is a foundational motivator. To actualize what you care to do, takes energy, effort, and often time to execute and develop, and dedication, determination and persistence.
Often times, people will care more to take the easy road, and not the hard road. So... they turn on the TV and watch Season 5 like you say.
It comes down to what they want to spend their time on, and pay attention to, the two main currencies, and those are fueled by what we are more to do.
Do we care more for the easy lazy things to do? Or do we care more for those important things we know we should be doing? Then actualize that care with will-power to get it done. If you don't act to do it... then at that time, you don't care more about doing that then the other things you are doing, because you are choosing to do the other thing.
Choice is powerful. Free-will. Care. We need to choose wisely what we care about and what we act on.
Take are. Peace.