I have had a day of multi-tasking.
I’m not sure what I have achieved but I’ve certainly sent out a vast amount of e-mails, “tweeted” a good deal, checked my LinkedIn connections, put up some new videos on You Tube, made some appointments, written a short report for a client, written a proposal including an outline course programme, checked that others are doing what they said they would be doing, talked with my Marketing Manager, arranged a telecom, had five minutes for a sandwich lunch, created a new one-day course, sought some content from a valued colleague, arranged a training webinar demo, and finished the design of my daughter’s wedding invitation!!
And you know what - I feel like I have achieved nothing!
When it comes to multi-tasking there are two views of it summed up by the following quotes:
Positive View
“If you can’t ride two horses at once you shouldn't be in the circus.”
Negative View:
“Multi-tasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.”
The way I feel I’ll maybe settle for the popular view – “Not doing a particularly good of anything simultaneously!”
Maybe Henry Ford was right when he said that “A weakness of all human beings is trying to do too many tasks at once.”
I rest my case.
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