Sleep on big decisions, not on deadlines.

Judgement improves overnight and work does not. A big choice benefits from the distance a night gives you, because urgency fades and proportions come back, while a task just sits there getting more expensive. Treating both the same way is where trouble starts, since people deliberate over small things and rush the decisions that matter. Delay helps different things for different reasons.

Sort what is in front of you into choices and tasks. Give the choices one night and no more, and start the tasks today. Notice which category you have been spending your delay on.