Honestly the most important thing I allow myself as a self-employed mess, is that I allow myself to let cleaning my apartment/doing dishes/even sometimes doing a big meal prep counts as work hours.
My work is I throw 16 ticks on my white board and slam em down via a pomodoro timer. As long I feel I'm doing something productive and good for my brain I let it fall under my timer because wiping off those ticks one by one keeps me on task!! Hell I even added studying jp to that since it's good for me! It's good for my brain! I'm doing stuff!
It's harder to self motivate when I don't allow it into my work day like this. Especially at times like this where I'm kinda scraping my mental health off the payment I gotta do whatever I can to keep myself and my surroundings in good shape, in whatever way integrates into my life easiest.
