Since we're all sharing, the concept of tracking progress by the day as popularized (but not created) by Jerry Seinfeld[1] has helped me quite a bit.

What also helped is realizing there isn't a silver bullet or magic pill that will get me to do the work: the work has to be done, and I have to do it at some point.

I started a few spreadsheets for things I'd like to log: amount of piano practice per day (aim for 30m), amount of script pages written now that I've transitioned away from programming, the amount of laps I swam that day, etc.

It feels appropriately "bad" to keep filling in the cells with "0". And looking at the "streaks" I have keeps me going.

Here are example pics of some of my spreadsheets, maybe this could be useful to some:

Piano Log: https://i.imgur.com/H0TbSSC.png

Writing Log: https://i.imgur.com/6Qb7Dka.png (not doing as well there, clearly...)

Conditional formatting reminds me of various thresholds per day and per week. Red = below minimum, yellow = at or slightly above the minimum, green = above the minimum

1. https://lifehacker.com/how-seinfelds-productivity-secret-fix...