Read a kind of interesting article - https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/02/26/tips-making-most-out-conferences-when-it-comes-your-career-opinion

I really like the "set deliverable goals".

The advice I give people who ask, in academia, is "one forward step a week", basically.

I think it's so EASY to get overwhelmed with "look at all this shit I have to do" that making a realistic schedule for it to happen is HARD.

It is okay to spend a day just treading water. It is okay to spend a day working on a thing with nothing to show for it.