You can’t stop a clock by ignoring it. You can only decide what it ends up measuring.

Avoiding a deadline, an age, or a decision does nothing to the passing of time. It only removes you from the part you could have steered. The hours spend themselves either way, so the only live question is what they end up having been spent on.

Find the thing you have been carefully not thinking about and give it twenty minutes this week. Starting badly still counts as something the time measured.