Don’t multitask – You’ll get more done if you focus on one task at a time and keep yourself from getting distracted. I know how tempting it is to start doing one thing, and then diverging on something else. Before you know it, a couple of hours passed with nothing to show for it. I know multitasking can give us the illusion that we are very productive and smart. But since we can truly only focus on one thing at a time, multitasking forces us to do extra processing due to the cost of ‘context switching’ (the time it takes to switch our minds when we move from one task to another).