[curt.clifton]

For me the absolute key is a weekly review, coupled with limiting the number of projects that are active at any one time. I have a lot of projects that are on-hold, but still have short review intervals. Each time one of them comes up for review, I consider whether it's time to activate the project again. For example, this is a very busy week, so I put several projects on-hold just to focus on the essentials. Come Friday, I'll activate several of those projects again, since next week looks more reasonable.