Thanks for the advice - and also thanks for welcoming me to the boards earlier.
I'll definitely try that approach. In fact I was just thinking if I took it to its extreme then I could write a 'list' with just one item on it. Then do that. Then write another list of one thing...and so on.
It could be that, as you suggest, I'm overwhelming my brain with a long list of non-urgent and quite boring things and my brain is rebelling and doing other (more interesting) stuff instead.
I value self-discipline but I also value freedom and that may be what's causing the inner conflict. (?)
Anyway, I appreciate your help and I'll hopefully plough through lots of things tomorrow one by one!
DLH
