It is really hard to separate work from personal life as freelancer. Maybe OP could start there, because this calculating problems starts there.
Setting working hours can help and IMO can't be that hard even with kids - I did it for some time.
And when you're looking for flexible calendar - you won't find anything better than small paper calendar, pen and cheap casio watch.
I did similar thing starting with something like "I want you to lead the conversation". It didn't knew that it was talking to another chatGPT. It very fast fell into a loop of historical facts :/
Bro, you are not alone. I have similar problems with my master's thesis.
Two things help me:
- every Sunday I report to my sister on my progress - on the evening she asks me how my paper is going and I honestly answer her even if there is no progress
- I try to work on it every weekend. I stopped fooling myself that working on it on working day evenings is even possible with a kid running around.
And... There is some progress!
I am a news junkie as I'm really into politics. I even studied sociology with focus on propaganda. From some time I started to implement "less is more" in the news aspect. I buy weekly newspaper (printed, helps me focus on reading), listing to one politics podcast a week. It really cleared my mind and I am still well informed. Maybe even better informed as I filtered out low quality information.
I have my photos on my personal computer and some of them on my external hdd. I manage and edit them with lightroom.
I backup everything from time to time on two external hdds with rustic.
I export albums to google photos and personal (mine and my gf) stuff on onedrive. But it's only exports - lower resolution and after-edit jpgs.
[edit] only time I lost some image was because I have waited too long to copy it from my camera to the computer :)