Old habits die hard

So I had a lot of time today but I still wasted it. Reflecting back on it I noticed that I fell back into my old habits of watching too much youtube and playing games I don't even enjoy.

I feel shame and guilt for not working on my project even though no-one knows about it nor is waiting for it. Now I need to figure out how to get rid of old habits and work on new ones so let's analyze my behavior a bit.

When I come home from work I always make dinner and watch some youtube or anime with it. Eating food usually don't take longer than 10 minutes but I usually get stuck watching content for at least hour or two. After that I often automatically switch to playing games while keeping some content on second monitor. I tell myself that it is only for an hour but I often get stuck in it too long, sometimes (like today) until I go to sleep, and sometimes (like today) I even go to sleep way later than I wanted.

So now is the question, How do I change my habits and what is best way to stay productive but still enjoy some anime or game from time to time? From my previous experiences balancing work and fun doesn't really suit me. I always either spent whole time working or playing. There have been times on my previous projects that I was working till late night because I was in flow. Same thing with games and anime, I always want to just finish this one thing or watch one more episode because of cliffhanger. I think best thing to do would be some split, 2 days of work and 1 day of play. So that would mean no youtube, anime nor games during my work days and no work during my play day.

Idea of splitting days sounds good to me so I will try it, hopefully I can stick to it into automatically switching to procrastination mode. And since last few days I wasn't working I will start with work days. Tomorrow we will see how it turned out.

Thanks for reading!