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Lots of good recommendations in this thread: Mindset, War of Art, Power of Habit, Deep Work are all great. My recent favorite is The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey. I listened to the audiobook and found it very engaging and helpful. I ended up having to put in digital bookmarks all over the place and then relisten at night so that I could make notes. Lots of practical ideas, several of which I've implemented and that have made a measurable impact. Here;s the beginning of the Amazon description:
Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. ....
I'm familiar with this problem too. There are a few things I have learned (and am still trying to better apply). My apologies if any of this is already familiar to you:
-*This isn't going to happen in the immediate future, as it will take its own work to implement and you don't have time during your current project. But setting up effective planning and checklists can make a huge difference. First, spend some time observing your energy levels and most effective times of the day. Chris Bailey lays out a great method for this and offers a spreadsheet for it in The Productivity Project, but you can also come up with your own ways to track it. Second, use those observations in your reviewing/planning process. There are a lot of different ways to plan your time, but I like to do this: on Sunday, I sketch out a general plan for the week, alotting only six items per day (though I do more if I get everything done) based on my master project/task list. Each morning I check in with myself to see how I'm feeling (I have a chronic illness) each and adjust my plan accordingly. Then I reevaluate the next day's plan at the end of the day based on what I've accomplished. That last step involves reviewing how things went, reassessing urgency if necessary, scheduling new tasks that have arisen, etc. I also stay attentive to the types of tasks when I'm doing my planning. Because of my illness, I associate very minute function levels with each task, but I think most people could just assign energy and focus requirements to each task and plan the tasks based on their focus cycles. Setting up some kind of planning process will help you focus on quality of work the next time you're in the midst of a long-term, demanding project.