In Others' Words: One Thing

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time." ~Richard Cech, author

I very rarely, if ever, multitask.

For the longest time, I thought multitasking was the way to accomplish amazing amounts of things in brief amounts of times.

Well, I was wrong.

I could multitask with the best of them (and most of them were women). Talk on the phone. Fold laundry. Start dinner. Help my kids with homework. 

A multitasker extraordinaire. That was me.

You know what I realized?

I wasn't giving any one thing (or person) my complete, undivided attention. Everything and everyone got just a little bit of me as I tried to do it all at the same time.

Efficient?

I don't think so.

Sometimes I got to the end of the day and couldn't remember what I had done. Who I had talked to. Where I had put something. 

So now I'm all about one thing at a time. One thing done well. And then I move on to the next thing. And do that well. 

In Your Words: What about you? Multitasker? Or one-thing-at-a-timer? Which works best for you? 

*In case you're interested, research backs me (and Richard Cech) up. 

**Julie C. won the set of stationery and stamps from the giveaway from last Monday's post!**

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