I suggest, on completion of a major task, you switch to cleaning up after the task. If possible, get up out of your chair to do this -- I find that the transiti

I suggest, on completion of a major task, you switch to cleaning up after the task. If possible, get up out of your chair to do this -- I find that the transition to physical movement helps this along. It's easier if it's a hardware task -- then there's shelving instruments, putting tried-and-discarded parts back into lab inventory, sweeping / vaccing up metal shavings etc -- but there's also polishing up documentation, tidying up journal / wiki entries, capping off histories, doing a grammar/detail edit pass on comments in code, snapshotting process files, etc. For me, psychologically, it's bundling up the job's result and closing off commitment to it which frees me up to face the next task.