How to prioritize tasks?
How to Prioritize Anything:<p>1) Make two lists. Write everything down in the first list. The second list is empty.<p>2) Something came up! One item on this list cannot be done. It doesn't matter why: you know which one that is. Which one is it? Write that down in the second list and mark it off the first list.<p>3) Repeat until the first list is done.<p>Congratulations, your second list is prioritized (albeit likely in reverse order), without extraneous algebraic diversions.<p>Bonus points for going Warren Buffett on it: only the top 3 priorities matter, sideline everything else; consider repeating the exercise after those three are complete.