Each day I sleep with the guilt of not making my day productive but the next day I waste it again. I am getting depressed now. What should I do?

Front-load your schedule with meaningful, achievable tasks.

Get a planner and check off what you have done every day. I add ordinary things to the to do list as I complete the task to give me an extra sense of accomplishment.

Start by doing one task at a time. By only focusing on only one specific task you won’t get flustered at all the tasks waiting ahead. Also once that one task is complete you will gain a sense of accomplishment and therefore can look at adding more tasks gradually from one to two then three but always finish task number 1 however small it is...

I used to do that too! The best thing to do is to start each morning with the simplest task: make your bed. Seems silly, yes? It’s not! You accomplished something! Then go on to your next. You may not get through all your tasks, but you accomplished making that bed! Celebrate your smallest accomplishments as well as your biggest ones! I was recently diagnosed with situational anxiety and depression, because life. And it’s a huge pill to swallow, but I make my bed, and if that’s the only thing I get done, at least I did that. Don’t feel guilty!!! Causes worry lines and stress marks. You’re wonderful the way you are. Self doubt is destructive, and you’re worth so much more than what that guilt is telling you.

I think, you can just be grateful for the day. That you are still be here. By doing that, you will be motivated achieving more...

Make DOING ONE THING that would make you feel productive your #1 GOAL to the exclusion of everything else till you get that one thing done. Sometimes we just need to build up momentum and bust through the wall we’re running into. Make it mantra, e.g. "Sit down at my computer, write the story." Repeat it.over and over in your head. Work for 25 minutes, stand up, tale a break, then start again. Imagine you’ve put blinders on. Tell yourself that there’s a point in time in which you’ve already accomplished this task, and that you’re just catching up to tha moment. Download a web blocker and block all distracting websites for longer than you need to. Make it inconvenient to indulge distractions, e.g. work in a different room from them, leave your phone upstairs, text friends ahead of time "I’m working on XYZ. Don’t bother me until then, but check in with me after 9 and ask me if I’ve done it".

You might want to try talking to a doctor or therapist if you can, since you say you’re “getting” depressed, but an inability to make yourself do anything can be a sign of depression already. Try telling yourself that you just have to do one thing each day, or one bit of a thing, and consider that being productive since you’ll have made some progress. If you’re currently doing nothing then that’ll be an improvement, but if you’re currently doing lots of things but still considering yourself unproductive, you might also want to be less hard on yourself, and focus more on what you are doing than what you’re not doing. That is, instead of saying “I only did x today, so I wasted the whole day”, you could try “I did x today, so that’s an accomplishment!” or “at least I did x today, so I didn’t waste the whole day”, even if x is something small like 5 minutes of exercise, or even just getting out of bed, depending on how difficult you’re currently finding things.

there is a time when we waste most our time day after day , you should know your self well and understand that why you scape from the work lr any kind of productive work you want to do ! im sure you can find the answer in your self cause there is allways something from ourselves that is not willing to do the right thing; in the next step you should find why do you think of productive day like that? i mean if you dont want it and youre not doing it so maybe its not right for you and you must change the way you see it. for example I was not working on my project because i was scared of ruin it ! after 2 weeks of non-productiving i get that if i change my enviroment and do something diff from what i was doing something will change! Also motivation videos help me out! knowing about your responds when you have some thing to do but youre not doing it right is so imp. for exmple I watch 2 seasons of a series when i dont want to do my work but when i be conscious about my behavior , in the next time i put my phone in thrive mode and hide my comp .you should know your respond and think about problem solving specificly for you . and just think about that all youre going to do is just for yourself anf your future and no one should make you to do something . and sometimes the depression is good for some choices.

Start each day by making your bed. There you go! One accomplishment down! It’s the easiest thing you’ll probably do all day, but the easiest one to overlook. Getting depressed/down on yourself for not being as productive as you think you should be is a defeatist attitude. At the end of each day, list what you accomplished/finished, no matter how small. You did so much more than you realized. Even if all you did was get out of bed, you did something. I was recently diagnosed with situational anxiety and depression. I’ve never been so down, but I remind myself: you fed the cats. You washed your hair. You held meetings. You didn’t give up. You. Didn’t. Give. Up. Remember that

Focus on the tiny pieces of productivity as much as you can. Ie going to the movies is really sitting in quiet observation of the person’s reactions