If you’ve ever watched my 3 minute TEDx talk, you’ll see that the central theme is in order to be more productive, focus on the task at hand more often than the time you have on hand.
Sure, we’re all trying to get a lot done – especially before the holiday season that just passed. We all felt the time crunch with so much to do in the limited amount of time leading up to the holidays and I’m sure that feeling will return soon enough now that the holidays are over. That feeling may already have returned for you.
Think back for a moment to the holiday break. You likely had less work-related tasks. Instead, you were spending some time with family, catching up on some leisure reading, and so on. Things slowed down, and when that happens you can really start to notice that what you’re doing is far more task-oriented than time-oriented.
Now bring your mind back to right now. Things have sped up again. Time is moving faster. So are you.
Now what would happen if you went back to the mindset you had during the holidays – where you could put focus on task over time more often? Sure, time will always play a role in our lives because we don’t live in silos, but it doesn’t need to take precedence over the tasks in our lives.
