list or add them to your calendar. How much time will you spend on each? This works well for your social media efforts. Example: Twitter: 3 minutes between 8 and 9 AM, three minutes between 12 and 1, etc. Use an egg timer. If three minutes isn't enough, schedule six minutes. Remember all those items you wrote down? Prioritize them. Some may lose a lot of importance after you've seen them written down. Tasks can be big or small. Can someone else help with some of them?  And those big ones? Break them down into smaller parts; they can be completed in steps. Write down what those steps are and conquer one piece of the pie at a time. One of Dale Carnegie's books discusses the notion of (and excuse me while I paraphrase here) "If something doesn't get done, is the world going to end?" It's something to think about, right? Is it really THAT important? Ah, just thought of something else! Mute the sound on your computer so that you don't hear email or notification sounds coming in! The sound IS on at times because something important is coming in however there are times to shut out the noise too! And I've included in my list how many hours to spend per week writing blogs! And going forward, there's now a dedicated time set for writing them. This isn't foolproof; if there is a timely subject then rules will be broken, however, it should work 90% of the