Where to start & where to draw the line?
I've been gardening this week (at last) for several hours at a time and my mind started wandering and wondering.... 
After a long winter the garden is in much need of attention, and it is quite large, despite the fact I have been trying to make it more low maintenance for nearly a year. Each morning I go out and aim to do one thing and end up doing something else, I always say I'll stop for a break at a certain point and then just keep carrying on.
So, my question is where do you all start, how do you decide what to do, do you stick with a plan or go with the flow, as it were. And where do you draw the line and say that'll do for now?
I try to do the worst areas first, or the ones that will make the most impact, but then I dither and think I should stay on top of the areas that are ok. Sometimes I think I will just cut back the worst of it and weed later, then find myself on hands and knees getting "just that last" bit of weed out. Sometimes I concentrate on the entrance area because you can see it every time you come in and then other times I think I should go to the bottom of the garden and deal with that before it gets carried away - decisions decisions.
I know there is no right or wrong answer, I am not looking for a solution. I am working hard so whatever I end up doing is having some effect but I was just wondering how you all go about maintaining your garden and dealing with these daily dilemmas.
On that note, the rain has stopped so I am off out again.

After a long winter the garden is in much need of attention, and it is quite large, despite the fact I have been trying to make it more low maintenance for nearly a year. Each morning I go out and aim to do one thing and end up doing something else, I always say I'll stop for a break at a certain point and then just keep carrying on.
So, my question is where do you all start, how do you decide what to do, do you stick with a plan or go with the flow, as it were. And where do you draw the line and say that'll do for now?
I try to do the worst areas first, or the ones that will make the most impact, but then I dither and think I should stay on top of the areas that are ok. Sometimes I think I will just cut back the worst of it and weed later, then find myself on hands and knees getting "just that last" bit of weed out. Sometimes I concentrate on the entrance area because you can see it every time you come in and then other times I think I should go to the bottom of the garden and deal with that before it gets carried away - decisions decisions.
I know there is no right or wrong answer, I am not looking for a solution. I am working hard so whatever I end up doing is having some effect but I was just wondering how you all go about maintaining your garden and dealing with these daily dilemmas.

On that note, the rain has stopped so I am off out again.
"To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul." — Alfred Austin
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Being female, I find I need to stop every now and again just to go the loo and that involves removing boots and gloves so I also have a drink to keep me hydrated and that makes a pause which is needed cos when you hit 27 is not sensible to work a whole day non stop as it tends to wipe you out for the following day.
I also have other interests so I can't garden every day even if I wanted too which means I don't get bored tho I can, sometimes, feel overwhelmed by what needs doing. Breaking it all up into the 4 groups helps with that too.
I pulled a whole pile of honeysuckle and ivy runners out of one bed today, but they stretched into another bed, where I realised some bamboo was shooting up, started sorting that out and noticed a shrub needed pruning, then I saw some creeping buttercup.......so it goes on. 🙄😅
Needless to say l do get sidetracked, but that's the idea anyway.
It might be worth dividing your garden in similar fashion and working on a section each time
My knackered old carcass doesn't like performing repetitive tasks or staying in the same position for very long. Flitting from job to job, discovering something else to do on the way, works well for me. I can be in my relatively small garden for hours and hours as long as I keep moving and changing what I'm doing.
I often set off with just one task in mind and never actually get to it
Having said that, I currently have a very bare garden (lots of removing stuff last year) and a number of unfinished jobs!