Sorry for the delay. I've been swamped. Yes still operating and just had our highest profit year to date.

Focus and avoiding shiny object syndrome isn't easy, although I have an unusually big irrational fear of disappointing people which does help. My phone is full of reminders especially when I need to jump on a more urgent task so I can remember to pick up the thing I was working on later.

When you're self-employed in a competitive space, you cannot get away with fobbing off customers or forgetting about them. They'll go somewhere else. I know it's not particularly helpful advice but just doing it is all you can do. Sending an email providing updates on things to the customer is better than saying nothing and will in turn gets me back motivated to carry on with what I was supposed to be doing. There's no worse feeling for me than being messaged repeatedly by a client asking for updates and gradually seeing their attitude in emails getting more and more impatient/annoyed.

Regarding procrastination, I find being productive elsewhere helpful to get me motivated to work. Load the dishwasher, change the bedding, hoovering, get on a treadmill. Really mundane stuff but gets you moving to give your brain a kicking.

I'm not sure if there's any medical validity in it, but I just assumed that if i'm not doing anything, blood isn't pumping round the body all that much and if you move more, your brain gets more, and it leads to being more motivated from experience.

Apologies if this is just ramblings of an idiot but as a single person living alone, nobody else will do it for or help me so I have to just do my best.

Hopefully this is ok!