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Advice That Will Help You Achieve More in Your Day

Mar4

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There’s a productivity technique that you’ve been believing in that is actually hurting your effectiveness and ability to get more done.

Don’t feel bad. We’ve all been led to believe it.

The big lie that we’ve been told and that we have believed is that we CAN multi-task successfully. People have worn it as a badge of honor.

How many times have you heard someone say proudly, “I’m multi-tasking!”  I’ve even bragged about doing it in the past.

Multi-tasking seems like the perfect solution to getting more done. But it’s a lie! Only 2.5% of people can multi-task successfully. I know I’m not among them. Are you?

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Six Things To Do Instead of Multi-task

Feb17

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It’s a myth that multi-tasking is the answer to getting more done in the same number of hours. And it’s actually creating habits that cause you to mismanage time.

Although, some people can juggle a phone call and typing a report at the same time, don’t think that if you do three things at once, you’re being more productive.

Actually, you create more potential for making mistakes because your attention is divided in several ways. Nothing muddles time management worse than trying to multi-task.

The human body and mind have limits and those limits cannot be extended by multi-tasking. Rather than depend on multi-tasking as your strategy, look again at some of the tried and true time management principles.

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