The to-do that never dies
Oh, hi friends!
This is embarrassing.
I had something on my to-do list every day. For three weeks.
I moved it on my Google Calendar every night.
I wrote it in my paper calendar every week.
I didn’t do it—until I did. Finally.
It took 13 minutes to do.
I wonder how long it took me to do all that calendar shuffling?
Actually, let’s not think about it.
Please do the thing you’ve been putting off, at least so you can avoid your own embarrassing confession.
Ship it.
Photo by Jerry Kiesewetter on Unsplash
“To get an idea of why, exactly, multitasking makes things harder, instead of easier, think of it in terms of switches. Any cognitively demanding activity — think writing, reading, crunching numbers — is a task. When we try to do more than one of those at a time, we're actually technically not multitasking; we're switch-tasking. We can't do both tasks competently at the same time, so we switch back and forth between them. And those switches come with a cost.”
A week later and I’m still thinking about monotasking. Are you? Multi-tasking really is terrible for you, and here’s a good primer on why you should give it up. (Say it with me now: No. More. Switch-tasking!) (h/t Nisha Chittal)
Do you have an evening routine? Mel Robbins made me think I should get one instead of crashing on the couch wearing my clothes and accidentally waking up at 4 in the morning and wondering what happened.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara