"Do you multi-task at work?"

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Today is Labor Day in the U.S., that day when you celebrate the American worker by taking a day off. Workers today, not just American ones either, are often rewarded for multi-tasking, i.e., doing more than one thing at a time. Supposedly you’re more productive when you keep several things going on at once.

Lately, I’ve been wondering how true that is. Think about it for a minute: the football receiver who drops a pass or lets the ball go right between his hands oftentimes tries to run without the ball, turns his head to look up field before he catches the ball in anticipation of what’s ahead. But it really doesn’t matter what’s ahead since he didn’t catch the ball. His coach tells him to focus on the fundamentals—catch the ball, then run; do one thing at a time.

That’s great coaching for life, too—focus on the fundamentals. When you do one thing at a time you concentrate more deeply, experience less stress and more success. So listen to life and make a life, not just a living today and do one thing at a time.

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