Theme of the day: timers. I set a timer for 20 minutes to do the dishes. After 7 minutes, I wandered back over to the laptop and remembered... after 13 minutes, I was done with the dishes and used the remaining time to clean up the sink and counters.

I have used timers in the past with great success -- so much of this seems to be about applying techniques that I know work.

Someday I hope I get to the point where getting the dishes done doesn't feel like an accomplishment