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Tell us your tried and true techniques for focusing when that deadline looms and you need to get work done. In other words, how do you avoid wasted days and wasted nights?

There is no technique. You just have to decide that the work is more important than finding the perfect picture of a clapping seal for your Pinterest board, or uncovering Ellen’s secret shame, or plucking the dog-hair tumbleweeds off the living room floor, or concocting the perfect chana masala when your tried-and-true recip...