Get Everything Done

It comes to us all, me included - that time when you feel you can’t work on your list for a moment longer without going crazy. This is the time when you feel paralyzed and your mind refuses to work.

What can you do?

Here are some suggestions:

Work through it. It will pass.
Take a break and do whatever you feel like for half-an-hour (timed), preferably things not work-related.
Have some “filler” activities on your list for just this type of eventuality.

Thing not to do:

Abandon the list altogether
Change your time management system
Succumb to your feelings of paralysis and do nothing worthwhile for the rest of the day.

The key difference between the do’s and the don’ts is that the do’s are part of the system while the don’ts involve abandoning the system. Abandoning the system can set your work back for weeks, while relaxing within the system means you can get straight back into the stream of things once you’ve gathered your mental strength again.