I love being challenged, doing ten things at one time and doing them all well. Unfortunately, it really isn’t the most effective way to structure your day. When you multitask it’s easy to take your focus off what really matters.

The landscape is different when you reach mid-life, each moment becomes more precious. If, like me, you have big things you want to accomplish, it behooves you to stop multitasking and instead develop a laser-like focus on the things that really matter. Here are several problems with multitasking you should consider: (more…)