Pychyl says that procrastinators typically "binge" on low-priority activities, bustling about with stuff that's second- or third-level priority, rather than tackling the things they really need to do.
He feared the plan could see resources devoted to targeting low-priority cases.
How many high-priority customers have waited in queue while agents gave their attention to other, low-priority customers?
The police, naturally, can see that as a low-priority function, especially if they think that the court is just going to slap the offender with a non-custodial sentence, so that they end up seeing the offender simply rotating through the justice system because the penalty is not effective.
Once you have critically evaluated all the ways you spend time during a given day, you should find ways to eliminate the low-priority tasks by finding someone else to take on some of your responsibilities, then be more efficient at the tasks you must handle.
Low-priority complaints (ie, complaints about issues that do not endanger patients) are initiated within 70 days and completed within 75 days after initiation.
It will also handle all low-priority 999 ambulance calls to help free up ambulances for more urgent cases from 2005.
If the user's experience of your product is a low-priority item, then maybe it's time to reassess your project's priorities.
Councillors were also told that some low-priority services and grants might have to be withdrawn, or charges for services introduced or increased to plug the gap.
I doubt that I will ever give up e-mail but there is no way I use it for anything other than a low-priority background task, worthy of the same headspace as sifting through the contents of my letter box at home.