This is why
Get rid of the demands, and then you can actually think.
Mornings are pretty much checkboxes for me. I try and make it so there's variable time slots that guarantee something will get done, by a certain time. For example, chickens get their free range anywhere from 8:30AM (on really lucky days) up to around 9:30PM, with thirty minutes, from 10AM-12PM school stuff, especially math, has to be finished. This way I can block out certain times for certain things, and I get less overwhelmed. Today I finished all of that a bit after 11, so I spent the rest of the time until 1PM on that article about laptops. I leave the afternoon as "whatever time", with the only thing I usually add in there being an hour or so of reading, though since I'm sick, it'll probably be an hour of snoozing.
Does the video game need to go in writing jail too? (BYC ends up in writing jail from time to time for me, so it's not just reserved for other characters that I'd rather be giving attention to.
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I put literal projects in jail. For example, last week I tried starting three at a time or so (I should have realized I was sick then...). One was installing Windows 7 on a nettop for benchmarks (hence referred to as The Foxconn), one was finishing benchmarks on my shiny new old tower, another was the laptop I posted about on my 365 thread, and this laptop review one.
I suspended them in the order of urgency each has. The Foxconn can wait. It will just wait. It is on the far back burner. The Fujitsu can also wait. It can go in third place for attention grabber. The tower gets second place, since it's so fast I can finish the benchmarks faster than any of the others. And the laptop thing needs doing tomorrow, so BYC shouldn't be open right now.
It's easy for me to do it since I know they're projects that can wait a while, until I see a use in doing them (such as blog posts and the such). I had all four projects going at almost the exact same time and the amount of junk lazing around was too much, so I put it all away except the most important.
Totally not because I'm currently often distracted by a video game
