From time to time, we find ourselves forced to republish this image. Why? Because the situation does not improve or even worsen.
The only thing that does improve is that more and more people recognize that this is their natural way of working, but they know they need to change it.
We always insist to our clients that we must have four, or rather, five modes of work during the day:
1️⃣ Attend only the meetings in which we really need to be.
2️⃣ Dedicate time to manage our communication channels: emails, mobile, internal messaging…
3️⃣ Moments of full attention and concentration, without multitasking.
4️⃣ Recharge times.
5️⃣ Personal life moments at the end of the day, with our minds focused on personal matters.
And what is, unfortunately, the real reality for many? That the following gets mixed into each of those modes:
🔹 When I want to be concentrated, I check my email, WhatsApp…
🔹 If I’m in an important meeting, I’m replying to emails.
🔹 When I want to take a coffee break to recharge, I continue answering WhatsApps or looking at my phone.
🔹 When I’m at home to enjoy my children, I keep looking at my phone more than I should.
And so we could go on…
Some may already be thinking that their case has no solution for various reasons we convince ourselves of. Although the perfect world does not exist, we guarantee that we depend much more on ourselves than we might think.
Achieving this becomes a differentiating professional element while also being a formula to gain time and enjoy a more balanced life with harmony between personal and professional aspects.
PS: Writing this post took me 11 minutes, thanks to avoiding multitasking. Had I fallen into it, it would have been 30 minutes, with more errors and lower quality.
