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I'm having a rubbish executive function day today. Having been very good and not stayed up late on Tuesday waiting for election results, I then found myself doing so last night instead, so I'm running a bit short on sleep, but also in that antsy waiting-for-an-outcome state, which would both be alleviated by concentrating on something else and also makes it much harder to do so.

Unfortunately I've got a deadline today for a piece of work that still has a fair amount to do on it, so I can't even give myself permission to take it easy. I'm hoping that posting this will help at least make it concrete to me that I need to get on with it, but any stern-but-kind encouragement probably wouldn't hurt...

Edit: I have done the thing! I would like a gold star please :)

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*sympathy* I hope that posting this has made the thingdoing come easier.

You can do it! Now just bloody do it so you can tell us all you’ve done it later and be smug and pretty :-)

(On the other hand, it is completely ok to not be entirely on the ball when the world is in this state!)

Definitely try to focus the bulk of your effort on things over which you have any power.

I blocked Twitter on Tuesday morning, and have been trying not to keep looking at US election news, but it's not going well.

I hope you manage to meet your deadline :)

Deadlines are important; think how much better you'll feel when it's done.

(Brought to you by: I had to finish a plan and ensure key colleagues were happy with it before a 10:30 meeting today, and listened to a specific piece of music on repeat from 9am until I had finished it ... at 09:50. Go me!)