I've been there and often am there. The problem for me is that I consume too much irrelevant and useless content. Browsing reddit, HN and other sites, reading m

I've been there and often am there. The problem for me is that I consume too much irrelevant and useless content. Browsing reddit, HN and other sites, reading many news stories and blog posts, all of this impacts how much actual work I can do and how much I can learn that is really relevant to my work. So to be more productive you have to select what you think is important to read and realize you can only read so much in a day until your brain says "stop". But to achieve productivity you have to learn discipline. Motivation doesn't last and there are no "tricks" or shortcuts to being productive if you want long-term benefits. As Jim Rohn said "suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret".