It's highly common when working that priorities shift and that sometimes you have way more on your plate than you can handle.
No need to panic!
- Ignore your task list
- Use your brain and create a fresh list of what you think is the most important
- Prioritize using the importance/urgency matrix
- Have a question
- Ask LLMs
- Identify the field that would best answer this question
- Search online
- Search for articles and books on the topic
- Determine the likelihood that this field has already been researched
- Read the table of contents
- Rapidly skim through the various sections of the book
- Determine what you want to get out of the book
- Ask yourself questions about what you briefly read
- What did you do this week/today?
- Do you want to talk about anything? (Not language related)
- Summarize tasks given during the exchange
- Plan next exchange
- Pronunciation
- Can you say ...?
- How do you say ...?
- Goal specific discussions
- What do you think of ...?
- What do you want ...?