I’ve said this before but it keeps working for me and it worked again today. After lots of long days and the loss of a lot of hours to meetings, today I just wanted to sleep.

But I took my own advice and did an hour on one job. And hour on another. And a third. I was rubbish: I did the hours but with huge tea-drinking gaps between them. Tea with ginger biscuits. I was rubbish.

And probably getting fatter.

But even under these conditions I’ve reached the end of the day and am further ahead on everything.

So just try an hour, okay? It’s only an hour, it can’t hurt anything / and for me it gets stuff moving and it gets me working.