And to be honest, I don’t often go through that detailed exercise that I described. I do keep a list of tasks or objectives and dates I target to have reached a certain level of progress. This has helped in keeping me focused.

Although I thought that using this approach would make it easier to manage a large volume of tasks, I haven’t really found that to be the case. I think the reason for that has to do with other problemes I need to address. One of them is that my priorities change quickly from day to day due to outside pressures, and I often have to stop in the middle of what I’m doing and jump to something else and then have to try to pick up what I was initially doing later. Also, there are often unforeseen obstacles that make tasks take longer than I originally assume. I’m not sure yet how to handle those things…