"I don't know if that's just a factor of my job or my brain. It's probably an 80 20 here for everybody but specifically for you," he says. "Get the two or three things I know I absolutely have to get done that are super high importance and then try not to worry about the rest" He doesn't plan his entire week ahead of time, which some people say is essential in order to be successful at work. The author has never been able to make those kinds of plans because her schedule was always too fluid.