Post by H-Virus on Jan 5, 2020 17:54:20 GMT -5
I'm assuming this isn't just a 'me' problem, so maybe someone here has some advice.
I feel like I've basically wasted this entire weekend, because while I had plenty of things I wanted to get done, the fact that I had plenty of things to do is what kept distracting me. I got some new Switch games for Christmas I've been wanting to spend time on. I've also fallen behind on my Netflix queue and need to get caught back up. I haven't written anything in months and told myself this would be a perfect time to start back in on that. My place could use a cleaning and I'm planning on moving this Summer so I should probably start browsing for new places soon. Adding on to all that is also my promise to start exercising this year, something that I'm going to have to commit several hours a week to if I want it to be worth my time, and if I do that it will leave even less time for me to do these other things that I've been wanting to do.
Yet for the last two days I haven't been able to focus on any of those things. I would start on one of them, and after about ten or twenty minutes I'd be thinking to myself "You could be writing right now instead of playing this game.", then "You aren't even writing anything, just quit for now and turn on The Witcher!", and then "How am I suppose to concentrate on who this guy wants Geralt to kill when I keep leaving the room? Just turn it off and focus on cleaning!" and around and around it goes. The whole thing is completely exhausting and yet I feel like I've barely done anything yet!
I'm not entirely sure where this lack of concentration comes from. Ten years ago I could sit at my computer and type pages worth of story without getting sidetracked, or binge-watch a season of a show that I'd bought on DVD. But for some reason that just doesn't seem to work for me anymore. I'm always getting distracted, or trying to multi-task, or feeling the urge to get up and move around, or whatever the case may be.
So... what do you do when you have too much on your plate at one time? And how do you keep yourself focused on the task you're currently doing instead of thinking of the stuff you could be doing instead?
I feel like I've basically wasted this entire weekend, because while I had plenty of things I wanted to get done, the fact that I had plenty of things to do is what kept distracting me. I got some new Switch games for Christmas I've been wanting to spend time on. I've also fallen behind on my Netflix queue and need to get caught back up. I haven't written anything in months and told myself this would be a perfect time to start back in on that. My place could use a cleaning and I'm planning on moving this Summer so I should probably start browsing for new places soon. Adding on to all that is also my promise to start exercising this year, something that I'm going to have to commit several hours a week to if I want it to be worth my time, and if I do that it will leave even less time for me to do these other things that I've been wanting to do.
Yet for the last two days I haven't been able to focus on any of those things. I would start on one of them, and after about ten or twenty minutes I'd be thinking to myself "You could be writing right now instead of playing this game.", then "You aren't even writing anything, just quit for now and turn on The Witcher!", and then "How am I suppose to concentrate on who this guy wants Geralt to kill when I keep leaving the room? Just turn it off and focus on cleaning!" and around and around it goes. The whole thing is completely exhausting and yet I feel like I've barely done anything yet!
I'm not entirely sure where this lack of concentration comes from. Ten years ago I could sit at my computer and type pages worth of story without getting sidetracked, or binge-watch a season of a show that I'd bought on DVD. But for some reason that just doesn't seem to work for me anymore. I'm always getting distracted, or trying to multi-task, or feeling the urge to get up and move around, or whatever the case may be.
So... what do you do when you have too much on your plate at one time? And how do you keep yourself focused on the task you're currently doing instead of thinking of the stuff you could be doing instead?