The formalist accretions of English prosody can be very tasking and restrictive - prescriptive even, as in any other language.
It's a common argument with parents and teens, with all the hi tech, multi tasking activities and socializing that is so different than when we were growing up.
Yahoo's Inspector Parker is an online version of the board game Clue, tasking players with discovering which person was in which room with what weapon.
If you want to mentally prepare yourself to get focused for your day, you could set a timer for ten or fifteen minutes and allow yourself to play an online time management game before starting other mentally tasking activities.