Being an entrepreneur often means having to be both your own boss and your own employee. It can be a challenge to organize your work. 

A tool that can help you prioritize your tasks is the Urgent-Important model.

For tasks that are not urgent but important, it might be necessary to schedule time for doing them. 

Urgent tasks that are not important often interrupt your work day.  You can consider if any of them can be delegated to other people.

Maybe your to-do-lists are too general or with too few details. 

If you want to write efficient to-do-lists, make sure to:

• break down the tasks or to-do’s into the smallest possible actions  
• use specific action verbs

This means that instead of writing ‘plan campaign’ on your to-do-list you write the specific actions needed, for instance ‘read X’, ‘call X’, ‘ask X’, ‘write X’, etc.

When there isn’t a balance between your skills and the challenges you are presented with, then you might feel either anxious/stressed or bored. For instance, you may not be comfortable doing the administrative tasks in your business such as bookkeeping or different kinds of contracts, either because you don’t have the skills for it or you quickly find such tasks boring.

On the other hand, when there is a balance between your skills and the challenge of your tasks, then you might experience what is called flow. This is a state of mind where you feel involved and totally engaged in what you are doing.