Look up the kanban method. It’s really commonly used in software engineering because there’s always so many tasks to do and very often we discover other tasks to do while in the midst of another task—natural task stacking. I’ve taken to using it in my day to day life and it’s the only way I’ve found that actually keeps some sanity to the chaos. Also, it improved my family relationships when I finally got everyone on board with it.
Your Chiropractor sounds like they’re equally credentialed in thermodynamics as they are in medicine.