Life is already painful enough. Find ways to make it less so, while still getting work done. There is something to be said for working with your nature, instead of always trying to change or better it. Do you have a short attention span? Work with it, use it, dance with it. In the past I have been so obsessed with self-improvement, but I've been going about it with the assumption that I need to change myself. But instead, I'm finding ways to work with myself, to not drive with both the accelerator and the breaks.