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If I get bored with this one thing, I can just do something else!”), but feeling “behind” is most decidedly <em>not</em> good for my morale. Timeblocking and scheduling are great, but they require <em>discipline</em>. I like to think that I am effectively entering into a short-term contract with myself. If the terms aren’t clear, the chances of failure go up (significantly). Interestingly, I think this scenario represents a conflict of interest: I am basically the party responsible for <em>monitoring</em> that contract, as well as the one actually executing the work.</p><p>Besides having a clear plan (a statement of work) I think the next biggest concern involves distractions. In my experience, you can’t get rid of distractions, but you can be judicious about <em>what</em> distractions you choose to entertain. That gets to the same end-goal of choosing <em>when</em> to focus on distractions, but puts a different emphasis on the problem.</p><p>The “hard” part (to me) is that developing the intuition of what to do (and when) is much easier said than done. 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