Progress is glacial

[mtbc]

I have been poor at getting around to working on things at home that are important for me to do. Occasionally I manage to finally make time to try to make more progress with one but too often I am then discovering that it was enormously long since I last put a few minutes aside for the chosen task, sometimes even a year or two, so there is clearly much room for improvement. I still suspect that my problem is one of ingrained habits, perhaps poor prioritizing, or even just feeling tired and wanting a break or a rest rather too often.

It is coming to something when my rate of progress is such that I am in danger of dying of natural causes before, say, getting much piano practice or finally finishing sorting through old photographs. I am spending but a few minutes per year on some personal tasks even after regretfully striking many from the list altogether.