What On Earth Should I Do Now?

Once again, I was inspired by a question on a blog the other day - basically, the question was: What should I do when I have more things to do than what I have time for?
There is of course always the old discussion: what's urgent, and what's important, and a certain prioritization will always take place due to different levels of urgency and importance - but in the end, when we have done the things we really, really need to do, we always end up with not enough time to do the things that we really, really want to do - it might not be really urgent or important, but we still like to interact with more people on twitter, write that additional blog post, read that additional book, write that additional chapter in yet another book we want to write.
When the things that really, really need to be done are done, I tend to leave it all up to a simple question: "What would I like the most to do right now?" There are of course dark sides to this - for instance, things might end up sleeping for months because there are things that just strikes my fancy better (but then, if things cannot afford sleeping for months, they all of a sudden tend to become urgent or important).
But if I do the things that I like to do the most, it also has the side effect that it eliminates the temptation from procrastination - I actually begin to do things that are useful rather than procrastinate, because I do what I like the most, have fun, find flow. And in the end - summing up over a larger period of time - I get more done this way. There might be things I would have liked to do that I didn't come around to - but I would have used my resources in the most efficient way.
And the good thing about having projects lying around in notebooks everywhere is that you will never run out of inspiration for what you could do, once the flow with a project ebbs - there will most likely always be another project to pick, before procrastination rears its ugly head.
So what is next - when all things that really, really need to be done are done - is the thing that is the most fun at the moment.
(Translated from Hvad i alverden skal jeg nu gøre?)

The Most Important Task

Not many days ago, I used almost one and a half minutes on Daniel Pink and his Pinkcast - now I did it again. This time his talked over a topic he picked up from the writer Leo Babauta - a topic, abbreviated into MIT (no, not that MIT, but rather): the Most Important Task: if you want to get the right things done, start the day by picking out the Most Important Task of the day, and without hesitation get on with it: allowing no outside disturbance such as e-mail, Twitter or other procrastination to get in the way until the MIT is completed.
It is, as Pink also indicates, somewhat of a revelation, because it is so obvious, when you think about it. Just get on with it.
And, well, just hope for the stakeholders of your Second-most Important Task being unable to physically place themselves between you and your MIT...
(Translated from Den mest betydningsfulde arbejdsopgave)