Multitasking might get you in trouble…
A good article on Harvard Business Review by Peter Bregman on why multi-tasking is stressful and unproductive. So, the next time you are working on your projects try to switch off your phones, IM’s, email and see if working on one thing at a time helps you complete the task at hand and makes you feel lighter…
Doing several things at once is a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we’re getting more done. In reality, our productivity goes down by as much as 40%. We don’t actually multitask. We switch-task, rapidly shifting from one thing to another, interrupting ourselves unproductively, and losing time in the process.
