Time Management

This is something I'm fairly abysmal at, time management, which is funny considering I have a degree in Business Management and you would think the two would go hand-in-hand.  And I did manage time well when I was in college. I had two young children in grade school, two all grown and out on their own; I was in PTA and kept up with everything pretty well.  But, as time has gone on, something has slipped.  I have a long, long list of things-to-be-done and a somewhat (okay, much) shorter list of already-accomplished.  Of course, big additions to the list were aging parents and grandparents and also health issues and me going back to work.  All of it combined to undermine my time management, though I needed it more than ever.
I read a blogpost by Peter Bregman titled "Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning" where he talked about a Focus list and an Ignore list.  I think these are  the things I've been working on, basically, but I take too much time to make my lists!  I get caught up in what I need to do, but then also "What do I really NEED to do today?" and then "What I need to do sometime" and "What can I put off today, but that needs to be done fairly soon", etc.  It goes on and on.  I waste more time making my lists to help me stay focused....hmmmm.  
Things happen to sidetrack me that are unplanned, but necessary.  I just need to learn to accept what I can do and not stress over what I can't get done.  The Focus lists and the Ignore lists are important, but I need to keep them shorter and more to the point and not worry so much about the lists! Though writing-things-down-so-I-won't-forget-them is another whole blogpost, writing things down does help me to not waste time worrying about what I've forgotten that I wanted to do!  Sigh!