use my time more constructively

Instead of eating whatever I could find, I cleaned the apartment. It worked.

can be therapeutic sometimes (that’s certainly the case today).

... worked on my thesis some more.
... spent time with my mom.
... spent time with my best friend (and I was thinking, if such a wonderful person thinks I’m her best friend too I’m not that bad after all!).
... did some much needed exercise.
... planned my son’s birthday party.

to work on writing my thesis.

Put simply: I’m crap at this.
I disappear off to a daydream-like land where time runs at double speed and before I know it I’m still awake in the early hours of tomorrow and have nothing to show for the previous day. It’s a hideous spiral, the more often I waste time, the more likely I am to do it the next day and the next and the next… need to get out of that.

First step: Learn how to do one thing at a time.
I can never get something done without starting something else half way through, and my split attention only results in both jobs not only taking longer than they should, but not being completed to the standard they should as well. Even silly daily chores, if I could get into a ‘one at a time’ habit for those it would be a start.