Elevate Your Focus: Tips for Limiting Multitasking

Elevate Your Focus: Tips for Limiting Multitasking

While multitasking was once seen as a highly desirable skill, it’s fallen out of favor in recent years. 

Why? 

Because it can make you feel more frustrated, anxious, stressed, and impatient. It turns out that when you think you’re multitasking, you’re usually engaging in rapid task-switching. 

You may be thinking, “Isn’t the Pomodoro Technique similar to that?” 

There’s one notable difference, though: the Pomodoro Technique involves longer periods of focus and predictable, short breaks. 

This structure enables you to do a deeper and more effective dive into your task than, say, sending a comment every 3 minutes when you get a LinkedIn notification, then going back to work.

Not that I’d know anything about that…

Back to the point - see what I did there? - here are some examples of  multitasking/task-switching:

  • Burning dinner because you were emptying the dishwasher
  • Listening to podcasts while talking to loved ones
  • Reading a book while holding conversations

When do you find yourself multitasking the most?

 

Quote of the Week

"Highly focused people do not leave their options open. They select their priorities and are comfortable ignoring the rest. If you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything." - James Clear

 

Mindful Living Tip

Here are some things you can do to boost your focus levels:

  • Start exercising
  • Remove distractions
  • Adopt a healthier lifestyle
  • Change your environment
  • Try the Pomodoro Technique
  • Move your phone out of sight
  • Re-energize by doing what you love
  • Recharge and reset (even if you’re busy)
  • Give yourself space to grieve and accept your emotions

 

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Author Bio

This piece was written for Flowering Phoenix by Jennifer Wallace, a writer and homeschooling mom who loves beauty and creativity.

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