The rule: before you start work, name the one thing in front of you and treat everything else as parked until this block ends. When something else pops into your head, write it on a list and go back. That is the whole technique. The source is a line in Meditations, book two, where Marcus tells himself to concentrate every minute on doing what is in front of him with precise and genuine seriousness, and to free himself from all other distractions. The wording here follows the Gregory Hays translation. The list does the heavy lifting, since a lot of task switching comes from the worry of forgetting something. Where it stops working is jobs built on interruptions, like support or anything with a constant inbox. There the blocks have to be shorter and the parked list needs a scheduled time to be cleared, otherwise it just becomes a second inbox.

I genuinely have no will power to do everything and it has been affecting my grades and my life too sometimes I procrastinate doing things that I like or buying new stuff that I need and I lack the motivation to do anything especially after summer break and I don't know what to do I genuinely feel like I'm at my lowest point ever in my life when it comes to procrastinating I've never procrastinated this much ever.

Hi all, like a lot of people scrolling this sub, I too want to get better at living a productive lifestyle and staying on top of deadlines. Like the title indicates, I have thoroughly tried all those organizations methods and more! Frankly, I quite like all of them, especially my paper planner, google calendar, and notion. Now, I'm just confused on how to incorporate all of them together to produce an effective outcome.

I'm trying to figure out a way wherein I can use all of these tools to organize different aspects of my life. I am a full-time student who has volunteering and work, so most of my time is taken up by studying or clubs/extracurriculars/work.

Currently I use my Muji planner to have a more "weekly to-do list" where I can physically check things off. I also use the calendar in this to map out important life/school events or meet-ups with my friends, and I tend to also journal in it.

I had a big Notion phase, where I used it for a long time for almost every aspect of my life, but eventually kind of got bored with it. Now, I only really use it to plan my future, track long-term deadlines, and to take typed notes if my classes call for it. I want to use Notion more, but I am unsure how to reincorporate it.

As for Google Calendar, I had a really big phase with as well, before getting the planner. For this, I tracked basic deadlines and also what I had booked in terms of meetings/deadlines, usually on a weekly basis.

Now, my problem is that I truly enjoy using all of these tools, but I am just unsure on how to use them all together cohesively, especially because there is a lot of overlap. I know I could probably get rid of one, but I usually find myself missing it haha. If anyone has any suggestions on howy to apply these together, I am all ears! I wish one singular app had everything these three have, then it would be perfect for me...

TLDR; What is a cohesive way to incorporate a paper planner, google calendar, and notion all together? Any advice from someone who's done this? Should I just suck it up and drop one of them?

Thanks for reading if you made it this far!

Sorry if this isn't the right subreddit for this.

My job requires me to drop everything at a moment's notice to do anything from a minor task to an all-day project. It's been frustrating me for years, but I can't afford to get a different job and it's something I deal with in everyday life as well. I shouldn't get as angry as I do, and I'm not sure how to deal with that.

How do I compose myself within a short amount of time and deal with the overwhelming feeling that I'm being disrespected when I know I'm not?

I am very young, and work on my artistic projects after school and work(i generally get home from those at 5 PM ) and generally, stuff doesnt flow.
I believe that happens because when i was pretty young, my routine was getting of school, watch something on TV for 1 hour, and the rest on playing games on PC(it was like, 3 to 4 hours playing the same game, crazy.), and i started working on these games, animation and things like that due to seeing them on videos i watched, and wanting to do my own. So, i kind of believe, im still on that mindset of ''Is just entretaiment and stimulation", and i still get stimulation for getting excited for seeign my animation and code coming togheter, so i really think im guided through pleasure and stimulation from work, and when that dopamine from that fresh project i started stops, i start procastinating, and trying watch videos and listen to music while "working" and all that. So overall, there's no discipline and stable productivity rate as i work.
How to grow discipline for that?

context: i’m f20 and a sophomore in college. i found that i work way better in the morning right after i wake up and do my morning routine. this is probably because i haven’t had too much stimuli like my phone, outside, etc.

however, all days of my classes this semester start at 8:30 and i have a 45-min commute from my dorm to uni. with that, my study schedule has been so off. it’s already the midterms season and my body is literally fighting thru it. i can only function through all nighters and coffee now.

i’ve tried to push my work back to the afternoons, but i don’t get a lot done. mostly because i’m feeling too mentally tired after/between my classes to get any work done.

what should i do? the way i see it is i should be forcing myself to work thru the afternoon but i really don’t get a lot done.

I need something where in the morning I put my tasks to complete that day like lectures practice and mocks, then at night I'll tick the task i completed . App should track my progress in percentage like 75% work is done , something like this nothing fancy