How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't

We need to take ownership and set priorities of the existing workload ourselves. Our priorities can be divided into:

• The work that one is passionate about, and have build-in motivation for.
• One's contribution, taking into account the company's needs.

• Prioritize the tasks with the highest value addition and impact, while being in your 'high passion' list.
• Tolerate tasks that may be important but stress you out, as they may be part of the deal. It is also good to push yourself out of the comfort zone.
• Elevate tasks that others don't see as important, but you are extremely motivated about. 
• Delegate all procedural, low-value and low-energy tasks to someone else. If that is not possible, try to minimize or eliminate such work.