Still Getting Back in the Groove

I've been home for a more than a week now after my cruise.  I had additional edits to accomplish on my return, and I finished them on time. 

I also had to re-read the story I'm working on now since I'd ignored it for a while thanks to everything else that was going on.  But I've finally begun writing it once more.

Plus, I've started again to undertake the other stuff I need to do for my writing.  Promotion, for one thing, since there's a good possibility I'm going to have quite a few books coming out in the future.  A happy thing, of course.  But now that I'm back from my sort-of vacation, I really do need to get more into the everyday groove of my writing.  Pick up on the efficiency that I've let dangle a bit.

I keep telling my dogs that, but it doesn't stop them from telling me they want to go outside, or play, or both, every ten minutes.  I think they  missed me--and I definitely missed them.  So, giving them attention has to be incorporated into everything else I do, efficient or not.

Do you have any hints that I can tell my mind to encourage the return of my efficiency?