Fishing alone teaches you that waiting quietly isn’t the same as doing nothing.

Waiting well is active, even though it looks like nothing from the bank. You are watching, adjusting, staying ready, which is a different state from boredom or scrolling, since both of those ask the time to pass without you. Plenty of real work has this shape: a seed in the ground, a skill half learned, a friendship in a slow year.

Pick one thing you are waiting on and stop checking it daily. Decide what being ready looks like and do that part, since it is the half you control. Then give it a date to be reviewed rather than constant inspection.