modern myth of multitasking
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The Modern Myth of Multitasking:
How to get exhausted doing nothing at all
Here’s how to retrain your brain to develop real Time Management and Project Automation skills
“There’s no such thing as multitasking, there’s only making people wait.”
Our brain can’t possibly differentiate and tackle two dissimilar tasks at the same time
It’s about as productive and dangerous as texting while driving!
And computers have actually perpetrated the myth of multitasking while they kill our ability
to think.
Making us as productive as if we were texting while drinking!
It’s time to STOP. Retrain our brains. And take off again!
#1: Time Management always beats Multitasking
Start by, err, timing your time.
As a Sales Rep, Freelancer or SMB, here’s how you probably spend your day:
Column A:
10% Actively Selling
10% Generating Leads
14% Problem Solving
Column B:
18% Travelling
17% Personal
31% Admin
Column A brings you closer to your clients, thus closer to your goals.
And, hey, we all have to travel and take care of personal stuff…
But 31% administrative tasks is just crazy!
Automate that third of your life with time management tools!
You need the right tools to work together in the right way to do the work for you.
#2: Chunk, Don’t Task
Short-term memory can only hold 9 things or
less at once. !
These are the max “chunks” your brain can manage at the
same time.
Chunking is based on the idea that you are more likely to remember
things you care about, or is grouped significantly.
Chunking improves short-term memory with a keen focus on availability, reliability, usability.
Mnemonic Devices
We all remember “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.”
Have fun creating “grown-up” ones and you’ll never forget your “homework” again!
Create a visual calendar, where each task or project is related to an image
Make information Consumable
Never work on more than 9 projects at a time
Never set more than 9 actionable items Never use more than 9 bullet points
#3: Make your time count
Hourly Projects Long-term Projects
More and More
It may seem impossible NOT to multitask…
In comes Harvest…
Harvest lets you automate:
• Manage and view multiple projects by multiple co-workers
• Free your sales team to work on-site and remotely
• Track time on your desktop, smartphone, iPad, from anywhere
• Virtual stopwatch for project management
• Automatically reminds your colleagues to submit
timesheets, invoices
• Segregate time: billable vs. non-billable, employee vs.
freelancer
• And all of it flows naturally into invoices so
you can get paid
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And make sure also to truly disconnect and plan to have some fun once in awhile!