Prioritize Tasks When Life Overwhelms

Dustin of Lifehack.org has written how he’s currently facing a pretty overwhelming real life situation, and how he’s dealing with must-do tasks—prioritising:

Taking a few minutes to figure out what you have to do tomorrow or today is essential to weathering a disaster, or rather, taking a moment to decide what you can manage without doing. I can’t miss class; the consequences for my students are too extreme and take too much work to deal with; but I can miss watching a video I’m evaluating to show my students, or a trip to the library to do research for a paper due in 6 months.

No matter how productive we aim to be, life just sometimes throws us a curveball. How have you handled these kinds of situations and still managed to keep at least some productivity going? Let’s hear in the comments.