What is Holding You Back? Part Nine

​In connection to the preceding post, many will attest that frog legs are delicious, and they will tell you that it is much like chicken. If it is all the same to you, I will just stick to chicken.

What Mark Twain had in mind figuratively, was that eating the whole frog is not the most pleasant thing to do, so you eat the biggest frog first thing in the morning, for the sake of expediting the chore, and move on to other things. No question, these chores that need to get done waste an immense amount of time if we do not address them head on.

Why is this a good trick to employ?

To begin with, we tend to have the most amount of energy in the morning, therefore, we are most likely to get through those distasteful tasks without vacillating, and it will imbue you to accomplish other necessary duties without hesitation. In fact, it makes for more of an enjoyable day. 

Did you know that you can get more done if you stop multitasking? And I am not talking about walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time.

We live in an age of so many distractions, we could be on an important conference call, then we hear the chime of an email coming in, we just cannot resist opening the email, while still on the phone.

Research has shown that excessive multitasking comes with horrible consequences on our mental and physical well-being. When we divide our focus, it creates unwanted anxiety and tends to exhaust or depletes thinking ability to focus. Also, it hinders our creativity, for the mind needs the room for inner thought to be able to hatch innovative ideas.

   Multitasking cannot help us to perform on the task before us 100%, it is a distraction, we will make mistakes, and our productivity will suffer.

. The mind's eye cannot focus on more than one thing no more than the human eye can, of course, the human eye can shift from one thing to another, however, that is a recipe for disaster. 

A while back, I was at an intersection where the oncoming vehicle behind me was approaching faster than it should have and almost reared ended me. That driver was driving and texting, do you get my point?

 The human mind is not wired to multitask, simply put, you are just bouncing back and forth between your undertaking.

 . Hence, many will not even begin to perform a necessary job, because they know that it will result in fatigue and exhaustion, thus, they hold back. My point is, we live in the same third dimension and the same monthly 720-hour timeline let us use our time more wisely for the sake of productivity.,