Every productivity app promises to fix your life. Most of them just give you a prettier place to write down things you will never do.
Start smaller than you think
Pick three tasks for the day. Not ten, not twenty. Three. Finishing three things feels better than abandoning ten.
The two-minute rule
If something takes less than two minutes, do it immediately instead of adding it to a list you will scroll past forever.
Protect your energy, not just your time
Blocking two hours for deep work means nothing if you spend the first ninety minutes checking notifications. Turn the phone face down. Actually do it.