How do you handle requests from others

[guard001]

Ditto.

Also, I'll sometimes create a deadline.

Thank you all for your ideas. What I've been doing is putting those tasks as NA's on my calendar, even though some may not have an explicit deadline. Since as I've mentioned sometimes the deadline might be implied, to me either way is time sensitive, so it should go in my calendar. Those NA's that HAVE to be done on a particular day or not at all get an "A" next to them (from the ABC method of prioritizing). The rest don't have anything next to them. That's how I differentiate between the explicit deadlines and the implicit ones.

I have several clients that can pull me in their respective directions all at once, so this is a way for me to tend to their requests w/o burying them in my NA lists. I'm sure it's not the best way to do it, so any other suggestions?

Juan.