Focus on Completing Multiple Tasks Correctly, Rather Than Filling Out a to-Do List
The more items you check on your to-do list, the more productive you will be, right? In fact, this may not be the case. If you have a lot of things on your schedule that only get a fraction of your attention, you may be wasting your efforts. Instead, do a few things well.
As the 99u productivity blog points out, filling your time with tasks that only take minimal attention isn’t really productive. He is busy. Instead of filling your time with things that don’t get your full attention, cut back on side projects or side concerts to one or two subjects and then put your best effort into them. The more attention you pay to fewer tasks, the better they can be performed:
You cannot do everything or be everything all the time. For experienced creatives, this can be a difficult truth. There are projects that may never go through the brainstorming stage. There are ideas that will never grow beyond the core of thought. But that means those who do it will be awesome.
While some tasks are non-negotiable (you probably shouldn’t focus all your attention on caring for just one of your three children), we often fall into the trap of feeling that things matter when they are not. Meetings and conferences are probably optional. Your five side projects could probably be reduced to one. By removing the less important tasks, you can make the more important ones even better.