Do you find yourself fire fighting instead of "functioning" on a daily basis? Imagine this, you walk into your office centre with a cup of coffee and the minute you walk through the door, your staff comes running to you telling you that one parent was looking for you before you arrived and he seemed upset. And as you walk into your room, you see a note stuck to your computer telling you to return call to one of your key supplier and your colleage comes running to you with a checklist for the menu for tomorrow.
All very important and need your immediately attention. So, you get down to it immediately, and by the time you have solved all these problem, 2 hours have past and your coffee has turned cold. Sounds familiar?
From Brian Tracy's 21 Secrets of Success, he shared about the "law of single mindedness". The law of single mindedness advocates doing one task as a time. How often did we not try to do all the task at one time? What happens when we do that is because we were not focussed on the task at hand and is trying to juggle more than one task, we actually spend more time needing to go back to one of the task because we were unclear or it was incomplete.
The law of single mindedness advocates that you should prioritise the tasks and complete one task at a time. Not only will the task be completed in a shorter time, the end result will be more thorough and less sceptible to mistakes.
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