Be honest, when do you do your best work?
When you’re trying to do a million things at once?
Or when you’re able to focus your attention on one thing in particular?
And by ‘best’ I mean most creative.
Most insightful.
Most valuable.
Most insightful.
Most valuable.
Yesterday, I was working with a new team, setting up their first project.
They’d done some things well: early work was planned in more detail.
Later, less well-understood work was there, but not so detailed.
But one of the striking things was the vast quantities of different stuff they had going on all at once.
They’re a tiny team.
With a lot of work to do and a demanding deadline.
They felt they *had* to start everything straightaway, to be seen to be making progress.
Of course, we’re all busy.
Of course.
Of course.
But spreading yourself too thin across things that are wildly different is a recipe for busy-ness and burn out.
Not productivity and progress.
Give yourself a gift today: finish one or two things. Not half do lots.
Your stress levels will thank you for it.
Your boss might, too.