My productivity rules:

    1) Produce, don't consume.
    2) Achieve small goals.
    3) Say no.

I used to work at a place that had a 10 am stand up meeting (once headed by the author of the Information Diet, incidentally). My trick was that I'd try to get in a code commit before that stand up. If I was able to accomplish that I'd be more likely to have a productive day.