Mike is right, it is helpful to “report” to someone. I don’t have that anymore.
I guess you could say I’m self-employed. It’s a family-owned software business, and it’s pretty much all mine now, and I do most of the work. I think I just outlasted everyone else. Or I don’t have anywhere else to go.
A trick I implemented a few years ago–use a whiteboard. You can buy 4’x8′ sheets of that stuff at Home Depot or Lowe’s for $12 or $13 each. It helps get your thoughts organized because you can write stuff down, erase it, re-arrange it, make lists, reminders, deadlines, whatever. I have one big board and two small ones. I’d like to have 100 square feet of it but I don’t have the room.
There are two reasons I think that this approach works:
1) We are conditioned from early childhood that if something is written large on a wall (chalkboard) it either A) must be remembered, or 
must be accomplished. It annoys your subconscious to leave something like that unresolved.
2) My brain works differently in the morning than in the afternoon. It’s almost as if my dreamer/planner brain comes to work in the morning, and my “worker bee” shows up in the afternoon. It’s kind of like writing messages to myself. I guess this is the communications media from one side of my brain to the other?
Another thing that works is standing up and moving around as much as possible. I built some home-made “stand-up” workstations for computers scattered around my office. I have three or four going at all times monitoring something for somebody.
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