Four Hour Deep Work

I'm getting back into the groove of work these days. Which makes me happy, because shit is getting done, slowly, but steadily. However, I've noticed that unless I have a looming deadline, I usually do not make my goal of 4 hour deep work. And what is "deep work", you say? Well, it's typing this entry, really. I'm physically engaged in writing, and not goofing off on websites, or playing mobile games as "breaks", or anything else. I'm either physically typing something, or actively researching things for my novel, or planning plots and setups out in my notebook, you know, active, engaged work. That's deep work. And I haven't been doing enough of it!

I've noticed that I tend to top out around 3.5 hours. Like, I keep track of how much I work in my bullet journal, AND I have an online timer for when I REALLY need to concentrate. All those tend to add up to only 3.5 hours and not more. Can't really have that, of course. I even have a specific tracker that says I've done at least 4 hours, and I rarely check that box off. So I'm going to try harder to make that goal. I mean, of course I'll take breaks and such. I just need to push one more round of work (I tend to break my stuff up into 30 min intervals.) and it'll be done. Anything else on top of that is extra.