a productivity hack bites me on the bum but a bear blogger soothes it!

You would have thought the'epitaph' adventure https://loveisverbing.bearblog.dev/productivity-1/ refers, would have deterred me from trying out one of the productivity hacks I'd absorbed... But 'no'!!! The day after watching said video, I decided to test the 'break-it-down-and-time-it' strategy to my 'finishing the garden gate project'. Priority as it included making it accessible to both sides and also secure ahead of mother and her Houdini-dog visit. I did as requested and divided up the elements. Then estimated the time to do each bit (that was difficult, took some time (!) but was the new element so didn't want to miss it out). The first element took 3 times as long to do and I began rushing... In the process of doing, I found a dog-sized gap in the fence. Horror! New priority! That dealt with, I headed indoors 2 hrs later than the estimated Big Task Total Time, feeling I'd failed. And a bit pissed off TBH. Sometimes the task does NOT fit the time allocated. I found myself…