How to set priorities and tackle them

After you have written down all your tasks (immediate, small, big, long-term), many of those tasks, should not be there for long. This only creates stress and you will be more susceptible to procrastination, you overwhelm yourself without the need.
If you have tasks to do that can be done within 2-10 minutes, do them right then. These are easy tasks and you should not let them pile up. When you complete these small tasks it creates motivation and momentum through small but constant wins throughout the day.
When completing easy and quick tasks that are just creating unnecessary noice, you can truly focus on determining which tasks are the most important.
*If a task is urgent and important : Do the Task.
*If a task is important but not urgent: Schedule the task.
*If a task is not important and not urgent: Delete the task.

 

You will see no benefit if you write down, organize and prioritize your tasks if you do not stick to a committed schedule/timeline to complete them. An essential factor is time management.
When you commit to a timeline, this breaks down your activities into smaller and defined time slots, this helps you stay focused. It is surprising how much work you can accomplish in short bursts of focused work.
There is a concept called Parkinson’s law, the idea is that work will fill the time allotted for it, so if you have a day to do a project, it will take all day. If you have an hour to do it, it will take an hour.

A great tool that could help with your time commitment is a timer, forcing yourself to focus on the task and work for a set amount of time, you are also training yourself to be better at estimating time for future projects/tasks.

 

When writing anything on a keyboard (any digital mean) the writer’s visual attention may shift between the motor input location (the keyboard) and the screen. In this respect, typewriting may be described as more abstract and phenomenologically detached than writing by hand (Mangen, 2014). This division between motor input and visual attention may at least partly explain findings in studies where participants report that, when writing on a digital mean, the act of typing can be separated from thinking and listening, whereas writing by hand is felt to require and enable focus and concentration (Park and Baron, 2017). As one of the participants in Park and Baron’s (2017) study expressed it: