When there are a million tasks on your to-do list—like washing the dishes, making the bed, watering the plants, paying the phone bill, getting your car's oil changed, applying for a new job, calling your mom, returning that library book you've had for weeks but never read, deciding what to do with your life, working up the nerve to ask out the barista who always flirts with you, starting that Great American Novel you've been thinking about writing for years, finally admitting to yourself that j…