September Business Spotlight: Stop Multitasking Month
The September Business Spotlight is dropping the multitasking habit you have.
3 Step Challenge
- Turn off notifications and outside distractions – like your computer ‘dinging’ when an email arrives
- Schedule times for your distractions – in your diary
- Just attack one item on your list at any one time and aim for thorough completion.
According to extensive research, the actual act of switching between two things actually takes longer mentally. Our brain assigns rules to how we do something and switching between tasks means closing one set of rules and opening another.
Interruptions – a ringing phone, the chime of an instant message – makes it difficult to come back to the original task at hand.
Multitasking often results in busywork—doing a lot, but accomplishing nothing. Whether in the office or in the classroom multitasking creates a drop-in efficiency.
Non-stop distractions often lead to frustration and loss of attention. Instead of accomplishing many things, very little gets done.
The Active Management community share resources, tips and advice to help you stay on track and reduce your multitasking.
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Justin is the Managing Director of Active Management, which he began January 2004. He offers coaching to businesses worldwide in everything from start up and design to marketing and sales systems. Justin also facilitates four Australian and New Zealand ‘fitness industry roundtables’ events, which allows him to see a huge cross section of business models.