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What can we do differently to enhance our time management
Other than multitasking.
Time management is a skill that everyone can learn and should master because most people don’t have the luxury of focusing only on one task. We generally cannot ignore mundane activities of daily living when a deadline looms for completing important work. When we speak of time management, we may be thinking of multitasking. However, with multitasking, our mental energies are fragmented among many different activities. It is like digging ten shallow wells, giving up each time before striking water. Instead, if we pour our resources into one place, we will increase our chances of reaching an underground water source. It may seem counterintuitive to think that muti-tasking may not be the optimal way to manage our time. Instead, focusing on one activity at a time with total involvement is key to effective time management.
There are three critical variables to consider regarding time management — time, the mind, and attentiveness.
Every activity takes time as nothing happens instantaneously. So, time is an obvious variable in time management. There is a movement of time from the present to some point in the future, a relentlessly consistent linear progression. It is customary to look at time in three buckets — past, present, and future. We cannot change the…
