Every idea needs space to breathe. That is how you sort out the good ideas from the mediocre ones. That is how you decide what is important to work on next, what should go on the back burner, and what you should abandon entirely.
There is too little time to do everything, so focus and discernment are critical for getting the right jobs done. Writing doable lists and clearly defining next actions can help make the actual doing automatic. The real work, though, comes first, when you answer this question:
What am I going to do today?