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Multitasking & Energy

The last 3 years of your life have probably been the busiest 3 years of your life. And as time goes on, the demands that are placed on you will likely increase more and more. You'll get busier and busier.

How do you usually deal with this? You tend to just work harder and work longer hours. But somewhere this will have to stop.

Why?

Well there is only a limited amount of time in a given day. Even worse, after the age of 30, your energy and focus levels will drop. So you'll have less energy and focus to spend on work.

One way we can get more work and results from less time is the active removal of something that really clouds our minds and slows us down - multitasking.

How Does Multitasking Slow You Down?

When humans multitask, we're doing more than one task at the same time. But there is something called 'context switching' which makes multitasking very bad for us.

Context switching happens when you're doing a task and then stop doing it. You have to remember what task you were doing and how far along you were. Then when you come back to that task, you have to remember all that information and start off from where you were earlier.

That entire process is a context switch. And it takes up time, each time you do it.

A context switch is what slows down a computer when you give it multiple tasks. And it also slows humans down too.

Each time you multitask and switch tasks, it's the same as driving down a straight road and pressing the brake every few seconds. It's slows you down, burns you out and is highly inefficient. But if you remove multitasking, you remove all the context switches.

That is like driving down a straight road with no friction at all - nice and smooth.

Context switching is usually happening when you ask yourself 'Ok now, let me see - where was I?'.

Multitasking slows us down, reduces our speed and efficiency, drains our energy and causes more errors because we're not able to pay enough attention.

Why Are We Multitasking So Much?

Multitasking is driven by the need to always know the latest information, mixed with the fact that we always tend to undervalue our own attention.

Sometimes you might be watching a new TV episode whilst filling out an important form. Or you might be distracted by your email or phone messages whist driving etc. In fact, I personally feel that the new wave of mobile/portable devices is actually teaching us to practice having a short attention span.

With most people, the minute they hear they have a new phone message, they stop what they are doing and reach for the phone without even knowing how much it is affecting their long term ability to concentrate. It is a really bad habit.

Multitasking is also down to our current 'snacking' culture.

Nowadays we are so used to watching a short video clip on Youtube or reading a quick message on Twitter. We spend all day plugged into everything with our phones, computers, and tablets.

Everything is at our fingertips and so we find it easy to be distracted, and we multitask so that we can keep up with everything.

The problem is that the more you accidentally 'practise' being distracted, the more you are able to be distracted in future. So it carries on and on.

Are You Stuck In The Deadly 'Mixed' Mode?

The 'mixed' mode is when you aren't fully focussed on doing the things that make you the most profit, BUT YET you're not fully turned off and relaxing/renewing energy either. We'll cover just how important it is to renew your energy, in just a minute.

Now, you're usually in the 'mixed' mode when you're multitasking.

Examples of being stuck in the mixed mode:

• Working on one task until you're interrupted, then starting a new task until you're interrupted again - and so on. There is no structure or direction in your work.
• Constantly living in the mixed mode and trying to get two things done at once while never being able to completely unplug, e.g. when you're out at dinner you're talking about business. When you're playing with your kids you're checking emails. There is no renewal and you never rejuvenate. You always feel tired.
• Continuing at a task until it's complete with no breaks. You may even work for 24 straight hours etc. Once again, you are tired all the time.

Sometimes, it's easy for a business person to start getting results and get too addicted to their work.

Signs That You Need To Renew Your Energy:

You can overwork your body for a short period of time. But if you carry on pushing it without any sort of renewal, your body will let you know.

Your body will release the stress hormone cortisol in order to cope - but it's not supposed to be used like that for long periods of time. Pay attention to your body. When you need to renew, you'll notice that you:

• Become sensitive to distractions.
• Will start to yawn.
• Easily lose attention.
• Stop listening to people.
• Become edgy.
• Are irritated and impatient.
• Get tired.
• Are more hungry and thirsty.

All of those are signs that signs that you need quality renewal and recovery.

Renewing Energy: Our Body Works In Cycles - Let's Take Advantage Of That

It's been proven that if you divide your time into uninterrupted focussed chunks, you can get much more done in your day. This works for us as humans because we work in cycles - our heart 'beats', we have brain 'waves', we breathe 'in and out', and our eyes 'blink'. We even sleep in rhythms, following day and night.

Also, for best results, our bodies are not supposed to be used constantly like machines. But we're not supposed to be relaxing all the time either.

As an example, imagine if your leg was in plaster and you weren't able to use your leg muscles. After a few weeks, your leg muscles will waste away.

On the opposite side of the scale, imagine if you constantly overworked your legs at the gym. You will damage your muscles and make them useless.

The ideal way to strengthen your legs is to stress and work the muscles slightly, then let them rest and renew themselves. The muscles grow back and get stronger during the resting process. If you carry on working without rest, you overstress the muscle and this is dangerous.

The secret to maximum personal performance is that we need to work in the same way - in pulses. This helps us to work with focus and then renew.

So to maximise our efficiency, we need to focus our working time in 90 minute 'focussed' chunks.

The 'Switched On' And 'Switched Off' Mode

The 'On' Mode:

When you're in the 'on' mode, you are fully focussed and are only working on the single task at hand. It should be a task that brings long term positive results. There are no interruptions allowed, and no distractions either. No phone calls, no instant messages, no emails and no procrastination is allowed.

You also shouldn't start your day by answering emails. This starts your day out on someone else's timetable, instantly leaving you open to multitasking again. It's like the items we own end up owning us...

Instead, you should start your day by working on your first 90 minute focussed chunk of uninterrupted work.

That way, even if you only get one 90 minute chunk done all day, at least you will feel productive with your day and have something to show for it.

The 'Off' Mode:

When you're in the 'off' mode, you need to be completely disconnected from work and get away from your desk. You need to know exactly how to completely get away from your work for this part. You shouldn't even be thinking about work.

You should be fully unplugged and renewing energy, whilst truly relaxing and rejuvenating. When you come back you should be recharged.

And just like the muscle example earlier, this will be better for you then working for 8 straight hours in a day, and definitely better then 8 straight hours of being in the 'mixed' mode'.

You'll also get more done in less time. You brain will also feel less cloudy and your thoughts will be clearer.

Something To Beware Of: The Zero Base Caveman Response

So now you know about the 'on' mode and the 'off' mode. When you're not in either of those you're in a 'mixed' mode that can often push you into a mixed reactive mode.

This is the survival mode. It's like constantly being stuck in the 'fight or flight' zone. The fight zone would make you impatient, angry, irritated etc. The flight mode would make you want to run away, be scared and worried etc.

When you're in the mixed reactive mode, you act differently.

Instead of being thoughtful, you become reactive. The body does not like you to think when you're in this mixed reactive mode, you'll just act instead. So instead of controlling your thoughts, you act automatically.

Your body puts itself into the same mode that it would if there was a physical threat in front of you. For example, if a big vicious bear came in front of you, then you would need to automatically feel fear and run away. That is the zero base response that a caveman would feel, and we still feel it today.

But that mixed reactive mode is only useful for a short period of time.

Your body needs to physically move to burn up the adrenaline inside you and get rid of that feeling quickly (which is why exercise reduces stress). But the chances are you wont actually need to run away from anything in your actual day to day activities, so you wont burn away the adrenaline, and you don't get it out of your system.

And if you're stuck in that mixed reactive mode for a long period of time, your body stays full of adrenaline, and stress hormones and it drains your energy and burns away at you very quickly.

This will make you feel awful and will also affect the people around you - especially if you are in a higher position than they are. You can't think or relate well, and it's a horrible place to be for a long period of time.

That's the truth and we've seen it happen time and time again.

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