Most people don't have any passion whatsoever. What drives normals is a different thing. They feel they have to do things, a kind of fear really.

I actually wish I was a laidback aspie and could truly enjoy what I like doing, but I have this gnawing feeling that soon I will be dead and I haven't done anything of importance....

Sometimes we have a problem with prompting, we can't create an impulse to act ourselves, so it has to be external. Maybe set up a schedule where he does one and the same thing once every week at the same time. Sometimes creating habit can be a thing to use to create other new habits. With me, habits come hard. I had work once a week and after I stopped that my life is much more chaotic.