My solution? I simply stopped worring about how much time I spent doing or not doing something.
I started focusing on one thing only: the delta between what I planned to have complete at the end of each day vs. what I actually completed that day.
On Thursday, my plan was to have items A, B, and C complete before I knocked off. A & B were done by noon. I overlooked 2 prerequisites for C and had to go back and do them, then do C, which took twice as long as I expected. I didn’t finish until 2 a.m. I also spent x hours on line. So what?
Sometimes going online gives me a break. Sometimes it gets the juices flowing again. And of course, sometimes it’s just a waste of time. But it doesn’t matter.
What’s better, spending 6 hours online and getting everything done or spending 2 hours online and not finishing?
We often forget that (time spent) != (work accomplished).
Stop worrying about how much time you spend planting seeds and focus more on finishing each day’s harvest.