Embrace Randomness

A phrase I associate mainly with Diana Goetsch's excellent freewriting class, but more recently, an approach I use for getting work done while feeling scattered. I write six things I need to do and roll 2 dice. One die selects the task, the other selects how much time (multiply the number on the die by 5 minutes.) If I really need to get something done, I give it three or four slots out of six.