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In the top section, write down your top three big life goals.Get out a sheet of paper and divide it into three sections from top to bottom.Many of the following organizational techniques came from Zapier “8 Time-Tested Task Management Methods”Ĭlose out your day and your week by looking at your calendar and your task making a new to-do list for the start of your next business day. Here are some templates from onplanners. Neither urgent nor important - Tasks that you will eliminate.Urgent, but not important - Tasks you will delegate to someone else.Important, but not urgent - Tasks you will schedule to do later.Urgent and important - Tasks you will do immediately.Image above and below from a great Blog, The Fivecoat Consulting Group.Organize and Prioritize.We all have different methods. Here are a few. Multitasking Fallacy. Hopefully, this has helped highlight the reality and costs of multitasking.

Above from RescueTime “Context switching: Why jumping between tasks is killing your productivity (and what you can do about it)”.O Task switching between three tasks at a time = 20% of your productive time for each and 40% lost to context switching O Task switching between two tasks at a time = 40% of your productive time for each and 20% lost to context switching O Focusing on one task at a time = 100% of your productive time available “According to psychologist Gerald Weinberg, each extra task or ‘context’ you switch between eats up 20–80% of your overall productivity:.I might buy-in but what is the impact on me? Above from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) “Multicosts of Mutitasking”.The human brain has evolved to single task.” “When we attempt to multitask, we are usually switching between one task and another.“We have a hard time multitasking because of the ways that our building blocks of attention and executive control inherently work.”.O Architecture, as in, “the cognitive and neural building blocks and systems that give rise to mental functioning.” “Multitasking is almost always a misnomer, as the human mind and brain lack the architecture to perform two or more tasks simultaneously.”.“We inflate our perceived ability to multitask: there is little correlation with our actual ability.O “individuals almost always take longer to complete a task and do so with more errors when switching between tasks than when they stay with one task” behavioral costs of task switching are typically unavoidable:.I see the numbers from the data but what is there any “science” to this?

Above from Productivity Report “How Much Time Do We Lose Task-Switching?”.

O Primary task only took around 32 minutes to complete O Each switch took them on average only 16 seconds

What happens when people are told not to task-switch?.

O 27 percent of all task-switching ended up in more than 2 hours of time doing something else O another 10 to 15 minutes doing other stuff before they got back to the original task. O People spent 10 minutes on task-switches caused by alerts, such as email notifications, and O average of 2.3 other tasks before getting back to what they were doing O cost 25 minutes before people returned to their original task O adds up to 1.5 hours per day reorienting. O Checking email was estimated to cause 96 interruptions in a typical 8-hour workday, which O Reacted to the majority of their incoming emails within 6 seconds of it arriving (Jackson 2001). OK, sure we see a lot of emails but what is the impact?

Above from Earthweb “HOW MANY WORK EMAILS PER DAY IS NORMAL IN 2022?”.

An average person send or receive 126 business emails per day.

Around 40 work emails are senare t, and 100 to 120 work emails are received each day.

I know, your not convinced because that “excludes you,” right? Let’s look at something common to most of us, email.

Above from Forbes “How To Reclaim The Huge Losses That Multitasking Forces On Your Company”.O Multitaskers show reduced brain density in cognitive and emotion control areas of the brain O 15-point lower IQ on cognitive tasks while multitasking $8k-$40k+ in lost productivity PER EMPLOYEE.Here are some outcomes from multitasking: