“It is not that we have too little time... - Deepstash

“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”

Most of us don’t have an issue with time management. We struggle with figuring out the one thing that deserves our focus, so we try to complete multiple different tasks simultaneously.

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The more tasks we try to do simultaneously, the slower we complete them and the more mistakes we make.

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  • When we try to do two things at once that both require our attention, it’s really hard to do either of them well
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You give yourself too much time to complete the tasks on your to-do list. But the more time you give yourself to finish something, the less likely it is that you will finish in that timeframe. 

Research shows that when people do complete tasks, they are done quickly.

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