I find it’s helpful to organize my to-do list into “urgency level 1”, “urgency level 2”, … “urgency level (8 or whatever)”. (Kanban style.) Then during periodic triage, there’s relatively little mental barrier to moving something from level N to level N+1, because I’m not deciding to give up on it permanently all at once, which would be a big scary decision. And I can check the later levels less and less frequently.
(My actual kanban column headings are not literally “urgency level N”; rather they are time-based labels “now, today, this week, next couple weeks, this month, next few months, someday/maybe, probably never”, although I don’t take those labels too literally.)
I find it’s helpful to organize my to-do list into “urgency level 1”, “urgency level 2”, … “urgency level (8 or whatever)”. (Kanban style.) Then during periodic triage, there’s relatively little mental barrier to moving something from level N to level N+1, because I’m not deciding to give up on it permanently all at once, which would be a big scary decision. And I can check the later levels less and less frequently.
(My actual kanban column headings are not literally “urgency level N”; rather they are time-based labels “now, today, this week, next couple weeks, this month, next few months, someday/maybe, probably never”, although I don’t take those labels too literally.)