“I get so overwhelmed that I do nothing” is a sentence most people only ever say to themselves.
You open the laptop at 9:15 knowing exactly what matters today. By 9:50, you have read the same three emails twice, opened a spreadsheet, closed it, checked whether anything happened in the news, and moved nothing. Not one thing. The work is not hard. You could explain to a colleague exactly what needs to happen and why.
And you are sitting perfectly still.
Dispatches From The Front 