3. Multitasking
Multitasking skills are a talent that not all of us possess. Realizing whether you are the type of person that can do it or not is important. If you’re able to multitask, great. If you’re not, then don’t bother trying. Many people make themselves less effective by trying to multitask when they simply can’t do it. This leads to multiple projects being started and none of them being finished, sloppy work, and discouragement.
4. Know When To Multitask
So, for us multitaskers, does that mean that we should just multitask our way through every single minute of every day, constantly having four or five things going at once? Absolutely not. You also have to know when not to multitask. For example, every day at work for me, there are four to five mundane little checklist-type things that have to be completed. They are boring and mundane. So guess what? I try to accomplish as many of them as I can at once and as fast as I can. But when my boss gives me a special project that he needs done in a timely fashion and of the highest quality, the time that I devote to that is usually uninterrupted and I usually concentrate on nothing else other than that project. Know when to multitask and when not to.
5. Reduce Interruptions
And finally, reduce the number of interruptions in your life. Realistically, you can’t reduce the number of things that are going to inter