... based on your attention level.
Save difficult and important task for when your attention level is proactive, leave the intense but easier stuff for those active attention times, and try to save up the easy or dull stuff for when you're capable of little else.

Your attention is a limited resource and you have to be careful where you are spending it.
If you choose to give away 80 percent of your attention to meetings, you will have 20 percent of your attention just for dealing with a few emails feeling overwhelmed.

• Take advantage of the periods when you're walking somewhere and make some phone calls. You can use your desk time for other tasks.
• Keep both a physical and a digital file of reading materials. Take advantage of the time spent commuting or in the waiting rooms for your doc...

• Proactive attention: you are fully focused and prepared for your most important decisions/ most complex tasks.
• Active attention: you're plugged in, but also easily distracted.
• Inactive attention: you're likely to really struggle with complex or difficu...