Multi-tasking is one way to get lots of small to medium things done simultaneously. Split your focus through the prism of a cluttered desk. However, it’s no way to get high value activities done.
Monotasking is how we apply our best thinking to our most important problems and activities. Shut out all other visual and auditory stimulation, and let all your bandwidth and processing power come to bear on the task before you.
Use all of you.
Ha! A confused mind says “NO” ….I think of the “Messy “ Think Daily” all the time now. Makes a lot of sense, focus and finish!
Absolutely agree and I’ve heard it said that an eagle that looks at two rabbits will go hungry. Personally I need all the bandwidth I can muster for most of my individual tasks and I have made improvements in effectively doing this. Still need to remind myself of the importance of this daily.
I can relate to this so much. I’ve been overwhelmed at my company for the past 5 + years while other employees seem to have nothing but time on their hands. Only myself and 1 other person answer all the incoming calls and direct them to departments which is the most inefficient way of doing things I’ve ever seen. No prompts to get you to the correct department, just bogging down 2 employees with telemarketers etc because of the old fashioned mentality of “live person answering & nobody likes prompts”. Also I dispatch all technicians, have to track all plan renewals, answer all plan questions, complete payroll, respond to incoming web-leads etc. The higher-ups don’t seem to understand why this is overwhelming for me. I feel like stress is killing me slowly with no end in site. As a woman – I feel like that’s all I can ever find is a job “answering phones” and it is not what I’m good at and is weakening my skillset at other things while busy being a human traffic signal.