Make before you manage.
I read this advice from Tim Ferriss recently. It's pretty solid. I don't follow this every day, but I try to do it at least a couple of days a week. I open my laptop, force-quit Slack, and work on something, uninterupted, for about an hour.
An hour isn't usually enough time to do something big or great, but it's definitely enough to get you that "I did something" feeling.
I listened to Tim Ferriss chat with Matt Mullenweg a few weeks ago. Tim asked Matt if he had any suggestions for what he might do "next". Matt named a few ideas, but one that struck me was that Tim might take his 700+ interviews and make them richer. Make them searchable, add AI features, and most interestingly: add links to interesting references. How often does "Paul Graham" come up on the show? In what different contexts? Love this.