Multitasking and directing your energy to unimportant tasks and activities will overwhelm and prevent you from being productive.
Focus on your 3 to 5 most urgent tasks on your to-do-list. Focus on one task at a time.
At least one of your Most Important Tasks should be related to your goals.
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The Eisenhower Matrix productivity method lets you consider the urgency and importance of each task. This method breaks tasks into four quadrants and prescribes how we should deal with tasks in each block.
The Time Blocking productivity method compels you to plan your day hour by hour, and prevent multitasking by batching similar tasks together.
Multitasking fractures your attention between multiple tasks at the same time; monotasking fully focuses on one task.
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