One strategy for building your energy to match what you need for work on a primary goal task is to start with a warm-up task. I call this a gateway task, because it leads to the primary task.
I use gateway tasks almost every morning to get my brain warmed-up and ready to take on my priorities.
Gateway tasks are useful tasks, they just may not be priority tasks. Gateway tasks should take only a short time, 15-30 minutes, to complete so you can move to your primary goal. Okay, so there are some mornings that may take a bit longer to get the brain and energy going, but the intention is always to move onto the primary task.
I don't recommend social media or email time as gateway tasks. Too easy for you to waste time and loose your focus.
What Gateway Tasks will you deploy?
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Rather than focusing on improving your time management consider managing your energy. Read You have the Time, but do you have the Energy?.