[ahmaman]

I can relate to your feelings.

Your suggestion are good. Perhaps a combination of them would be most effective.

However, often the problem isn't completely solved with a specific technique. I found that the growth of my inbound is just a symptom not the root cause.

To me, the root cause was not accepting the following fact:

I am a finite being, with finite time, living in a world with infinite possibilities. Regardless of how productive I am. I probably will miss on 999% of what the world has to offer. And that is OK.

By treating time as a resource that must be optimized. I found myself trying to fit in as much as possible. Which paradoxically sucked the joy out the very things I scheduled. Every thing became a chore.

I found much more helpful to practice being fine with the fact that I will be missing on most of the things out there. Afterwards, the productivity techniques magically became much easier to stick to.