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We must determine if something is urgent, or just important, or just

desirable – or whatever. For an example, if you have cancer and need
regular treatment, this is very likely urgent and must be dealt with first.

--urgent tasks must be done immediately

--important tasks can be scheduled soon
--desirable tasks can be put on a list

Now, Let’s Consider Multi-Tasking

Back two or three hundred years ago, multi-tasking wasn’t even a

consideration in anyone’s life. But today it has become a way of life.
This is doing two or more things at the same time.

Psychology speaks to this and says we can multi-task and do more than
one thing at a time, but we cannot CONCENTRATE on two things

equally at the same time. What happens is that our mind must change
back and forth from one thing to another, and this produces a drain on

us where we cannot do either thing very well, and it may very much rob
us from getting important things done like pursuing our goals.

For instance, corporate studies have shown that people at work may
check email several times an hour. But, each time they do, it takes at

least one minute for that employee to re-focus on what they were
doing before that was probably important.

And even when they do re-focus, it is not with their entire attention,
which may take another two or three minutes. And this may happen 10

to 20 times an hour. We don’t realize the toll we pay when we multi-
task.

Do we want to OFFER others us: a multi-tasking person?

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