Seems like you work strictly sequentially. What would help is to bring in more dynamism based on your mood & time of the day. Dynamism = mixing of subtasks fro

Seems like you work strictly sequentially. What would help is to bring in more dynamism based on your mood & time of the day. Dynamism = mixing of subtasks from various tasks in a way that optimizes your energy spend and work satisfaction. Let's run with your example of 3.5 days worth of task-1 followed by task-2. So at the start of day 4 you have a sense that only half a day or so work is left on task-1 that might be mostly testing, addressing review comments and deployment. On the bright sunny morning of Day 4, I would keep that grudge work on hold and put my energy into designing a solution for task-2 (deep work that I would enjoy, requires more R&D, thinking, research etc.). Then you could pick up remaining task-1, the known stuff requiring less energy in the latter half of the day and finish it.