At my age? I tell the next guy to get off his ass and take care of the 6 top priorities, screw the next five, and take off early to catch a ball game.
But if I had no authority? I've been in that situation before. I would bust my ass and get all that shit done, 'cause We Scots don't know the meaning of the word failure. Seriously, we don't. Angus MacBain was the only guy with a dictionary and he used it all for TP last winter.