You most certainly are not alone, friend

Sounds like me at work!

Distractions are part of working in a team, or can just be our inner chimpanzee getting bored with a task. If it's the latter, make sure you're taking enough short breaks: it's a common fallacy that forcing yourself to work for eight hours solid is efficient.

See if you can structure your task with natural mini-goals, to help feel like you're getting somewhere, rather than viewing it as a huge thing.

Endless distractions can leave us feeling like we've accomplished nothing at the end of the week, and that's demotivating. So make a list of what you do and take some time out to review it - firstly so you can see that you have done stuff, secondly so you can see if there's a pattern you can plan around.

Been there done that... multiple times.

Welcome to the club!

Morsof, i like you.

Sitting here reading and thinking about your journal entry is the second stop on today's daisy chain, for me.

I've had occasional minor successes through trying to break routine, but it's like trying to escape the gravity of a black hole.

Breaking some tasks, like cleaning, down into little (less than 5-minute) pieces occasionally works.

Sometimes I start things in such a way that leaving them unfinished creates a huge obstacle in my daily life; I've gotten results that way, but I've also been amazed to learn how many intolerable hindrances are in fact tolerable.

I spend an awful lot of time doing things that I tell myself "have to" get done before I do anything important. I know this is a lie in almost all cases.

There, writing all that was the third daisy.