we tend to procrastinate something important by doing things that also have to be done but aren’t as important  i was just explaining this to my wife last night  i tend to want to be productive all the time  i feel that as long as i am working on something im providing value to myself family job society whatever  i cant always prioritize tasks so i tend to just jump into whatever is in front of me in the moment just because i need to be doing something but also because if i dont do it right then and there i know itll never get done  this causes anxiety because at times i feel as there are just 1000x as many things needing to get done as i can handle even though i actually have plenty of time to do them  one of the things ive found successful in overcoming this is to build lists or charts to track the things i need to do and assign them value  this works especially well when you have a direct monetary value that can be attached to it  the best example i can think of was when i was in sales i kept track of my sales pipeline in a spreadsheet and on the far right column i would include the potential commission from each transaction that helped me have a visual representation of what each tasks value was so i could focus on the ones that were most important first