According to the Maha-Assapura Sutta a practitioner abandons the hindrances before working on insight.
Practice samatha meditation until the five hindrances dissipate.
Abandoning covetousness with regard to the world, he dwells with an awareness devoid of covetousness....
Abandoning ill will and anger, he dwells with an awareness devoid of ill will...
Abandoning sloth and drowsiness, he dwells with an awareness devoid of sloth and drowsiness, mindful, alert, percipient of light....
Abandoning restlessness and anxiety, he dwells undisturbed, his mind inwardly stilled....
Abandoning uncertainty, he dwells having crossed over uncertainty, with no perplexity with regard to skillful mental qualities....
Seeing that they [the five hindrances] have been abandoned within him, he becomes glad. Glad, he becomes enraptured. Enraptured, his body grows tranquil. His body tranquil, he is sensitive to pleasure. Feeling pleasure, his mind becomes concentrated.
After abandoning the five hindrances work on vipassana. Some days you may use your entire meditation working on calming and removing the five hindrances through single point meditation.
With his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability, the monk directs and inclines it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations.
He discerns, as it has come to be, that 'This is stress... This is the origination of stress... This is the cessation of stress... This is the way leading to the cessation of stress...
These are mental fermentations... This is the origination of fermentations... This is the cessation of fermentations... This is the way leading to the cessation of fermentations.
It is important to work both samatha and vipassana rather than skipping samatha and waiting for days when vipassana is easier and feels more natural.