I prioritize tasks by deadlines first, whichever is more pressing. Those will be the first, the top priority. Secondly is order of importance. That goes along with the deadlines as well, but if somebody is having an issue, I like to take care of those first. Lastly, it will all depend on the difficulty of the task. I like to take on difficult ones usually earlier in the day. I don't want to save those for later. I do like to get short ones done fairly quickly to make sure that I don't have things on my desk. I think I mentioned before I like to have a really clean desk. But you certainly don't want to leave the difficult ones until later in the day either. I think that about covers my priorities.