Trying to get yourself to “do more” is often not the answer.
Time is not yours to control.
We often live in the future (in a state of “joyless urgency”), thinking that if we just “get through these tasks” or “prepare ourselves enough” we’ll reach some enlightened, satisfied state in the future, but this future doesn’t exist.
It’s not the distractions fault. You want to be distracted so you go where that is.
Procrastination comes from wanting to maintain the feeling of omnipotent control over life. You avoid the risk of the upsetting experience of failing at an intimidating project if you never start it.
Take the little bits of time you get. 10 minutes a day actually goes a long way.
There’s always more to do. You need to limit your to do lists and limit your priorities.
The combination of everything you need to do along with everything you should be doing creates an overwhelmingly huge list.
There is a bunch of not really important work you can do that will make you feel productive but is not really helpful. It’s things that aren’t doing the thing.
Control your mind. Feeds make you care about more things, a bunch of things that don’t really matter.
Do the next necessary thing.
Complete work-in-progress before moving onto the next thing.