Yup I definitely feel this. Especially the bit about feeling you need to have excuses to leave your desk otherwise you stay there till a “reasonable hour.” What’s been helping me is joining co-working zoom calls with other people in my network- 2 hours a day. Even if no one else joins the call it seems to keep me focused. Then whether or not I’ve done anything else for work I feel like I’ve at least done something substantial! And let’s face it, when I worked in an office I probably spent half my day chatting and making excuses to be away from my desk anyway...
Yes, and I've tried so many ways to make myself knuckle down and get on with work so that I can then use the bits of free time that I do have productively or to relax. But work expands to fit a space. All the techniques I've tried work for limited periods but as some point the effect fades and I realise that I'm back in that flat loop: make time for good/necessary things --> feel like I'm not doing enough work --> resent good/necessary things --> fill time with work (in the worst way, by dragging things out) --> need time for good/necessary things --> back to square one....
Yes, I feel like this ALL the time! I have a current deadline at the end of the month, and the truth is I could probably sit down and get the rest of it done this week...but for some reason, I always end up dragging it out. Maybe because, if I didn't, I'd have a lot of "free" time and I'd feel very aware that I wasn't using it to earn...
Yup I definitely feel this. Especially the bit about feeling you need to have excuses to leave your desk otherwise you stay there till a “reasonable hour.” What’s been helping me is joining co-working zoom calls with other people in my network- 2 hours a day. Even if no one else joins the call it seems to keep me focused. Then whether or not I’ve done anything else for work I feel like I’ve at least done something substantial! And let’s face it, when I worked in an office I probably spent half my day chatting and making excuses to be away from my desk anyway...
Yes, and I've tried so many ways to make myself knuckle down and get on with work so that I can then use the bits of free time that I do have productively or to relax. But work expands to fit a space. All the techniques I've tried work for limited periods but as some point the effect fades and I realise that I'm back in that flat loop: make time for good/necessary things --> feel like I'm not doing enough work --> resent good/necessary things --> fill time with work (in the worst way, by dragging things out) --> need time for good/necessary things --> back to square one....
Yes, I feel like this ALL the time! I have a current deadline at the end of the month, and the truth is I could probably sit down and get the rest of it done this week...but for some reason, I always end up dragging it out. Maybe because, if I didn't, I'd have a lot of "free" time and I'd feel very aware that I wasn't using it to earn...