You know the feeling. 

You are drowning in emails. Hosting meetings. Delivering clean reports. But there is a quiet dread: failure to progress Project A in the next seven days would mean disappointing those who matter.

The thing to do is obvious. Just make time. But the last times you made time, clients called you to make urgent deliveries; interruptions showed up to take the time. 

To make progress, one route to explore begins at the observation that interruptions are inevitable. Clients will call. You will need to eat. An illness might take hold of you.

This route lets you witness the pattern of interruptions so that you treat it not as a problem to be solved but as a feature to be studied, freeing you to work on actual problems like focusing on projects that matter.

The real problem is focus. 

How do you sustain it long enough to deliver the value you seek?

Your tendency to return to an endeavour determines whether it sees stagnation or progress. In the midst of interruptions, returning is something you can design for.

The pattern of interruptions presents opportunities. Some moments allow for better focus than others. What are those moments? How regularly can they remain conducive to your particular endeavour? Can actions be taken to enhance the quality of such moments?

Once you recognize such accommodating moments, the call to make becomes arriving at such moments, placing the thing to do before you and doing it.