It's 8:45 on Monday morning, and I feel like I could be very easily distracted by many many things. You know when sometimes you're just in that frame of mind? Anything and everything could seem more important than the actual work I promised myself that I'd do. 

Here's what I could do instead of doing the actual work:

The list could go on and on. 

There's always other stuff to do. It's already 9am, and I had originally planned to start my deep work session at 7am. So, I'm already late...which is another story I could tell myself to justify not doing the work today. 

I'm writing this note to myself so I can get this story out of my head and get ready to do the work at 9am.

Today I will do deep work from 9am until 12pm. There's absolutely nothing more important than doing this work during this time frame. This specific work can only be done at this time, and everything else on the list above can be done at another appropriate time.

Something I've started to be a lot more conscious of is doing stuff that requires no brain power late at night before going to bed. A good example would be tidying the kitchen before bed instead of in the morning. In the morning I want to write and think and it's when I will do my best work in the day. Tidying the kitchen and doing housework in the morning is the wrong thing to be doing at the wrong time. So, late in the evening, when I'm tired and really can't be bothered doing anything, I will clean the kitchen and do housework. I don't particularly want to do it, but I know that I'll benefit from it the next day. 

What's the lesson for today? Make sure I continue to discipline myself to do the right work at the right time. Don't waste the time for my best work or the tasks that don't deserve it. 

OK. It's 9am. Let's get to it. 

Chris.