How to Balance Your to-Do List

I think checking in with myself is something that I need to do more often because the laundry list of items to do is always growing. It's like a two by two matrix on the one axis is urgency, so is it very urgent or not urgent? And then the other axis would be impact or like importance. Something with high urgency and high importance should obviously get done today,. But where most people fall victim to this: Like I'll prioritize high urgency, but low impact items as they're on myToday's to-do list.