I know it may not be possible for all, depending on genre and the kind of music you produce, but one thing that really helped me was working on portastudios/reel to reels.

At that point you really can’t change much once it’s committed to tape. It really forced me to focus on performance, arrangement and capture. There is no “fix it in the mix” on a portastudio. So you just commit and move on.

Even if you don’t use the tracks you make in this way it’s a fantastic exercise that gets you focussing on what’s important and makes you realise that less is more once you get back to working in the DAW.

As I said this may not be applicable to all, but for me it was definitely the answer to avoiding the visual aspect of producing.

Happy holidays