There are many studies across a vast spectrum of activities that show shorter, high frequency practice/learning sessions can lead to quicker and more positive results.
Learning guitar, studying, exercise, language learning, and all manor of activities.
Here’s just one Less Is More: Latent Learning Is Maximized by Shorter Training Sessions in Auditory Perceptual Learning - PMC
An internet search will bring up many more. A more targeted search will drill down to music specific studies, but they all have the same idea in common. 10 minutes of daily practice over 6 days (for example) is seemingly better than a one hour session every sixth day.
When wouldn’t this be applicable? An activity that takes a minimum of 60 minutes to complete is an obvious candidate.
Reducing your gear to concentrate on one or two pieces at a time is wise, writing out daily practice goals could help (on this day practice X, next day practice Y, repeat).
If you are dreading even turning things on and sitting down to create, then that is the first goal for the first week - fire everything up, sit down, success reached. Anything else you do in these sessions is extra credit.
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