26 Sept 2019, 12:44

This was, as always, a great video and I have used so many of these techniques over the years to keep me on track. (Another thing I have done is to use a second computer that has no software on it (even email) except the software I absolutely need for that work.)

Honestly, however, when I saw your spreadsheet with four hours of time every morning without distraction, my first thought was, "I would have killed for four hours every day to concentrate on my work when my kids were growing up." As a single parent of three kids, it was just as important for me to learn how to work WITH distraction because getting kids to school, getting calls from them during the day because they forgot their lunch, sports meets, driving them hither and yon, meant that having a fixed schedule for myself was impossible and I had to learn how to work under less than ideal conditions. One life saving technique I learned was to take five minutes before rushing off to write down what I had been working on, where I was, and where I needed to pick it back up when I returned. Finding that balance between maintaining a routine and being flexible enough to cope with the demands of a family is a real challenge.