Mike Carruthers:
Do you ever feel that you've got too much work to do in a day?
Well, so does everybody else.
Len Merson:
Most people fervently believe that the amount of work
is the problem. That's never been the problem; the problem's
always been the mismanagement of the work.
Len Merson,
author of the book, The
Instant Productivity Toolkit, says it's not the work itself,
it's the clutter and disorganization around you that gets in
the way.
For example,
most people's paper is scattered across the top of their desk.
And so what most people think being organized is, is going to
the nearest office supply store and buying another plastic tray.
All they've done is taken the chaos from horizontal to vertical.
Now they have neat stacks of what? Of chaos.
You have
to really develop new habits to change all the chaos but Len
believes one way to start is…
To work
on one project at a time, because when you work that way what
happens is that focus and concentration shoots up like a rocket
and distraction drops to zero.
But isn't
multi-tasking a more productive way to work?
There
is no such thing as multi-tasking. It is impossible. The definition
of multi-tasking is asking one singular brain to focus on two
or more entities simultaneously giving each 100% focus. The
human brain can't do that and yet we attempt to do that all
day long and it makes us prone for mistake, error or omission.
You can
link to Len's website
from ours,somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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