This is a question about prioritization and to do lists. I find that my affairs can be sorted into:
urgent and important (do this or else you will lose your job; the doctor says to do X or you will die a horrible death in Y days)
This stuff really needs to get done soon but the world won’t end (paying bills/dealing with bugs in one’s life/fixing chronic health issues)
Everything else
Due to some of the things in the 2nd category, I have very little time to spend on the latter 2 categories. Therefore, I find that when I have a moment to sit down and try to plan the remaining minutes/hours of the day, I keep thinking of stuff I’ve forgotten. For instance, at T-0, I will say “I should do A, B, and C”. At T+5, I will remember D and say “I should do D, A, and B; there is no time for C today”. And on it goes until spending time on A or B seems profoundly foolish and doomed.
In HPMOR, the problem is also presented at the end of the book.
Has anyone written about dealing with this problem?
This is a question about prioritization and to do lists. I find that my affairs can be sorted into:
urgent and important (do this or else you will lose your job; the doctor says to do X or you will die a horrible death in Y days)
This stuff really needs to get done soon but the world won’t end (paying bills/dealing with bugs in one’s life/fixing chronic health issues)
Everything else
Due to some of the things in the 2nd category, I have very little time to spend on the latter 2 categories. Therefore, I find that when I have a moment to sit down and try to plan the remaining minutes/hours of the day, I keep thinking of stuff I’ve forgotten. For instance, at T-0, I will say “I should do A, B, and C”. At T+5, I will remember D and say “I should do D, A, and B; there is no time for C today”. And on it goes until spending time on A or B seems profoundly foolish and doomed.
In HPMOR, the problem is also presented at the end of the book.
Has anyone written about dealing with this problem?