Stressed? Do you Multitask?
Stressed? Do you Multitask?
“How Multitasking Hurts Your Brain (and Your Effectiveness at Work)” was the title of a great Forbes article back in 2013. So often we try to multitask and do too many things at once…. where in reality, we’re decreasing our productivity and making our stress levels even worse.
The statistics are staggering… (from www.stress.org/)
77% REGULARLY experience physical symptoms caused by stress
33% believe they are living with extreme stress
48% feel their stress has increased over the past five years
48% have sleeping issues due to stress
$300 BILLION – annual costs to employers for employee stress-related health care and missed work
What is one simple thing you can do?
One thing that can really help is to take all email and Facebook notifications (sounds) off your phone. If you’ve got them buzzing and dinging all day, no matter what you’re in the middle of doing, they will distract you and demand your attention. Are you up for that!?
I hope you are! Now go be awesome!
