Being busy and being productive are not the same thing.
I learned this the hard way.
As an engineer, I thought productivity meant completing every task.
Tick, tick, tick. I was exhausted and still behind.
Then I discovered the real lever: "sequencing".
It's not about doing more. It's about doing things in the order that unblocks everyone else.
The task that takes you 20 minutes might unblock 3 colleagues for the next hours.
Do that one first — even if 10 "urgent" emails are screaming at you.
What's the one task today that, if done first, unblocks everything else?