Ali Hale:

Do One Thing at a Time In today’s work – and home – environments, we rarely focus on one thing at a time. We end up cooking while making a phone call, checking emails during dinner, or playing around on Facebook and Twitter when we intended to do the online grocery shop.When you multi-task, you split your attention between two things – and often end up dropping the ball on one of them. (Who hasn’t burnt the dinner because they got distracted while cooking?) Also, an obsessive focus on “being efficient” can actually make you more stressed, as you’ll feel that life is just one chore after another. For greater effectiveness, and less stress, learn to mono-task.

All of the tips that she lists are great, but the one quoted above I think is one of the best things that you can do to get rid of stress and get more productivity.

via Kill Your Stress: Eight Stress-Busting Secrets - Dumb Little Man.

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