I find the hardest part to be starting. If I can sit and focus even for five or ten minutes I'll be good to go for a while. But if I never start, or start and d

I find the hardest part to be starting. If I can sit and focus even for five or ten minutes I'll be good to go for a while. But if I never start, or start and drag myself to hackernews, then fark.com, then check my text messages, and e-mails, then check my bank account and pay bills. Well, it's quite obvious I get nothing done. Then I decide I'm tired and go to bed. I've been relatively stressed mentally recently having gone through a really tough break up which left me relatively distraught and emotionally stunted, starting my first full time job as an application developer, and starting grad school with two classes which I take in the evenings. I've been close to really screwing up grad school, felt the stress during my days at work, and resulted to alcohol and drugs to feel okay on weekends. Lately I've calmed down. And although I've got quite a bit of work to do before I'm fully qualified to pass my courses, my work productivity has gone up, and I've set a goal to sit every day and do even a little coding. What's making it exciting is I'm learning all of Java's new features which makes me feel confident about bringing them to work when we switch on up to Java 8 and just making any progress actually makes me excited to start coding the next day. So anyways, that's my personal story about losing my ability to get in the zone and finding it by dismissing the relatively overwhelming aspects of my position and just trying to start and get anything done. (It might also help I just bought a MacBook Pro which I'm really enjoying developing on).