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Jun12
Can You Stop What You're Doing To Do What You're Doing?

Do you know what "concerted effort" and "multi-tasking" have in common?  Nothing.  I've made my position on multi-tasking quite clear; I don't like it a  little bit.  It sets the stage for shoddy and incomplete work, it clearly makes us inattentive and unfocused, it robs us of our greatness.

"Are you afraid to be great? For some of us, it's scary, for others it's too hard. But whatever the reason, the irony is that being great at your job makes your life easier". --Ari Rosenberg, Do you Want To be Great at This?, Online Publishing Insider

Part of Ari's prescription for being great is to address every task and each issue with the concerted effort they deserve.  That's where our control and our success lie.  It's not all that difficult to eliminate distractions and discourage interruptions; it's difficult to make the initial effort.

Those wandering thoughts might be tough to ignore, but it really is possible to eliminate personal calls from work hours.

Hunger pains, headaches, or any other physical assault need attention, fantasy sports teams don't.

I think you get the point.  And, rather than give away all of Ari's suggestions, why don't you take a quick trip over to Online Publishing Insider and give Do You Want To Be Great at This? a quick read.

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Great point about multitasking. I'm not great at it but have always been told it was a necessary skill in today's job market. Lately I have felt a little overwhelmed with responsibility so this week I decided to try an experiment. Each day I pick a specific task or group of tasks (depending on how involved they are) and work on one at a time. I have have been a great deal more productive this week simply because I focused my attention on one thing at a time instead of spreading myself thin.

Kimberlee, you just made a perfect argument for doing one thing at a time. Whoever came up with the idea that multi-tasking works was wrong. Perhaps it worked in some theory, but it definitely doesn't cut it in real life.

So glad you're feeling more productive; less stressed, too, I'll bet.

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Carolyn -

Thanks for the link to Ari's article. Here's good follow up reading from my favorite daily fix (Trizle):

Good to be blogging with you at Freelance Folder.

- Dave

PS - how do you do that great comment preview? Is there a plugin for that?

Thanks for the Trizle tip, Dave. Yes to the post and yes to the entire blog. In fact, yes to subscribing, too.

I believe we'll be enjoying Freelance Folder, also.

No doubt there's a comment preview plugin; there's one for just about everything else. I'll keep an eye out for one for you, ok?

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