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This is often called “waiting mode” and there are strategies to help deal with it. For me, that’s alarms. If I have an appointment, I’ll set alarms for when to be in the shower, out of the shower, and out the door. It allows you to actually relax.
That's a great idea and helps with one of the big things that triggers waiting mode for me. To add to the conversation of techniques, another factor of waiting mode that I experience is the avoidance of task switching ("I don't want to start doing this only to have to stop doing it suddenly"). For this, perhaps adding an alarm earlier as a heads-up to prepare to switch tasks might be helpful?
/me keeps checking alarm and that I have it set right, how much time until the alarm goes off vs the event the alarm is set for.