Rule: You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.  For you to do something new, you must complete or stop doing something old. Getting in requires getting out.  Picking up means putting down.

Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding upon the exact things you are not going to do right now, if ever.  Most people engage in unconscious procrastination. They procrastinate without thinking about it. As a result, they procrastinate on the big, hard, valuable, important tasks that can have significant long-term consequences in their lives and careers.  You must avoid this common tendency at all costs.  Your job is to deliberately procrastinate on tasks that are of low value so that you have more time for tasks that can really make a difference in your life and work.

-Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

It certainly sounds counter intuitive that procrastination could help us get more done, but as Brian Tracy points out, we can turn the procrastination we all have into a useful trait if we just point it at all the tasks that are not the best use of our time.  So how do we do this?  The key is to take a step back, write out your full list of tasks, then honestly grade each one from an A to an D, with A being things that absolutely have to get done and now, down to D for things that are unnecessary or could be delegated to someone else.  If you're having trouble doing this list yourself, find a moment to sit down with your boss, a colleague, or even a friend or family member; just talking through the details and getting an outside perspective can be all you need to get the unnecessary things off our list so you can get back on track.