>>40693316
>my boss seems to have randomly assigned an extra day of overtime to me and I need him to act as a reference
urgh. yeah I understand your reasoning for staying quiet. thats annoying
>jerky or fruit rolls
doesnt sound like a bad idea desu as long as you're careful with your sodium levels

>>40702294
>Like narrow it down?
no, more like what you wrote afterwards
>focus on one thing at a time without constantly looping back to thinking about the other tasks
Look at the pile of urgent things you need to do, choose the one that seems least intimidating or choose one at random (can flip coins for this), then make it as annoying as possible for you to solve the rest while you focus on the one.
an example could be:
>you have an inbox full of e-mails requiring your attention
Lets assume all of it is important:
you need to document your citizenship to apply for something, you need to send some other document to your landlord, you need to pay your dogs vet bills or risk having to pay late fees. Things like that.
What do you do?
You choose an important E-mail at random,
Make an offline copy of it
Turn off your internet
and get to work.
Why? well because now theres only 1 thing right in front of you instead of 3. The rest are out of reach at the moment, so you can't justify procrastinating on the one you chose by uselessly skimming through the others: you wont be able to skim them without ignoring your current task, getting up, turning the internet back on, and then waiting.
That's more effort than sitting and solving the offline copy you chose at random.
Therefore= less distractions, and less tasks to accidentally mix up with each other.
Once you're done turn the internet back on, reward yourself with a break, and start over with another task from the pile.