advice for a younger comedian from an older comedian but also anyone can read this regardless of age and comedian-ness

i just happen to be older and a comedian in this particular instance

dear friends,

i’m glad you’re here.
thank you for being here!
as you know, i often share short jokes here and sometimes longer pieces like this.

a younger comedian has asked a question and i have written an answer.
here is what he asked and what i answered in this latest edition of
“a younger comedian has asked a question and i have written an answer”!

Here is another advice question that would help me and may be of use for you to share....

I heard a quote the other day: "do not confuse temptation with opportunity" and it inspired me to prioritize! I am capable of feeling overwhelmed at any moment if I can just sit and think of all the nice things I could be doing. 

Do you ever feel this way? How do you focus your efforts? 

this is a good question! 
the thing it makes me think of FIRST is this:

a friend shared with me a thing that he heard somewhere about how the things that we choose to do (each day, in our life) can be categorized as somewhere along the spectrum of "important/unimportant" and the spectrum of "urgent/non-urgent." you can make a graph where one axis is importance and the other is urgency, and you get four quadrants. 

hopefully, when things are urgent and important, we do them.

hopefully, when things are NON-urgent an UNimportant, we don't do them. i'm looking at YOU, social media! (hold on while i stop looking at social media…)

now, when things are urgent and unimportant, we often do them because of the urgency. (i feel like i have to write back to certain emails right away, for example. i don't!)

and then there's important but not urgent.