Do You Have a Time Limit for Dreaded Tasks?

Erica asked how to prevent non-urgent tasks from going entirely into the back burner in favor of you dealing with the urgent. In my case, it's more the clinical work instead of teaching versus the research projects and kind of more long-term things I need to do for our residency program. Cal Newport does a lot of excellent work that looks at how to make sure you are taking the time to do things that you find important and not just urgent. So if you're a professor, you might want to have protected time during certain days of the week only dedicated to making progress on your research.