Choose what deserves your full mind.

Not everything is entitled to all of you. Some things deserve the whole apparatus, the part of you that goes quiet and stays with a problem, and most things deserve much less. The trouble is that whatever arrives first tends to take everything, so your full mind gets spent on the accidental rather than the chosen.

Make the choice before the day makes it for you. Name the one thing this week that gets your undivided mind, and let the rest be handled adequately rather than beautifully. Adequate is enough for most of what crosses your desk.