This is the final show in our 10-show series on lifelong learning. Today we’ll discuss five activities that will make you healthy, wealthy and wise all at the same time.
Now we’ll warn you – these activities we are recommending today require some multi-tasking. We usually suggest less multi-tasking, but these are things ideally suited for doing more than one thing at a time.
Let’s pull out the Professor’s whiteboard for: 5 activities to grow healthier, wealthier, and wiser.
For example, is it really necessary to take (or make) a call while going to the bathroom? Yet I’ve seen guys standing at the urinal while talking on their phones. If you make this a practice, do you flush?
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I was in a store a few days ago. The woman behind the counter was vacuuming while she talked on the phone. I just don’t know how you combine those two tasks effectively.
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Can you walk and text at the same time?
We’ve all heard about texting while driving. Well apparently, there’s been an outbreak in emergency rooms of people who were texting while walking. They’re missing the step off the curb and falling into cracks. And they end up needing medical treatment.
Maybe the old question, “can you walk and chew gum at the same time”, needs to be revised!
Cruise control isn’t automatic pilot!
Unfortunately, this next one is also a true story. A woman purchased a new Winnebago. On her first trip down the road, she set the cruise control in her new motor home. Then she left the driver’s seat and went to the back to make herself a sandwich. Needless to say the vehicle crashed. Winnebago now includes instructions in their owner’s manual to explicitly warn against this form of multi-tasking!
Tossing the salad
Our favorite example, though, is the Seinfeld episode where Kramer installed a garbage disposal in his shower. He loved to shower, but it took up too much time. So he started multi-tasking. Among other things, with the disposal installed, he found he could make dinner while he showered.
Once his dinner guests found out how their dinner had been prepared, they nearly tossed their salad!
In this article, we summarize five articles that discuss crucial skills for success. You’ll find the five key points from each article here along with the link so you can get any additional information you may want.
5 Things to Understand About Your Brain
#1 – Your brain is unique.
#2 – Your brain thrives on challenge and flow.
#3 – Your brain is a physical organ.
#4 – Your brain deals in emotions as well as thoughts.
Do you think it’s easy or hard to walk and chew gum at the same time? Maybe that particular task isn’t hard to do simultaneously, but we are all multitasking more than ever today. What impact does that have on our productivity? We look into that further in this podcast episode.
A study at UCLA on multi-tasking asked participants to sort index cards with various shapes on them. The researchers divided the participants into two groups:
Group 1 sorted their cards with no distractions.
Group 2 sorted their cards while listening to, and counting beeps.
The researchers found that the two groups sorted equally well. However, the first group remembered what they sorted better than the second group.
So, something suffers when we multi-task. Doesn’t common sense tell us the same thing?
So why do we all try to do so many things at once?
There are many reasons – because we think we can, we get distracted, we’re bored, maybe we’re really just procrastinating, or perhaps we think it’s a competitive advantage.
The problem is … it’s not productive, because we want to be effective AND efficient.
Multi-tasking can be costly Researchers at the University of Michigan found that, even with the simplest of tasks, it takes time to mentally switch from one to the other. It may only take a second for your brain to catch up, which doesn’t sound like much. But how many times do we do this in a day? And that’s for the simplest of tasks – more complex tasks can take up to a minute!
Not to mention that, multi-tasking requires us to FOCUS on concentrating rather than ACTUALLY concentrating. It also boosts stress hormones in our brain. So, in the short run, we get less done. In the long run, it’s bad for us.
So are these studies saying that we should NEVER multi-task?
You’ll be happy to know that you can walk and chew gum at the same time, because you’re performing two tasks that have become automatic. You don’t have to think about it anymore!
Many people may argue that checking their e-mail or text messages has become second nature.
But there’s a bigg difference – there’s a second human being in the equation. For the communication to be effective, you have to understand what they said, and what they left unsaid. Then, and only then, can you convey an effective return message.
In other words, you have to THINK!
3 tips to break the addiction
Admit that it’s a problem.
If you don’t see it as a problem, you can’t solve it. This is the first step.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Keep one thing in front of you. Everything else should be filed away. If you don’t see it, you won’t be tempted. Reward yourself with something you enjoy AFTER you complete each task.
A time for everything, everything in its time
What’s most important right now, based on the 11 future you’ve visualized]? Work exclusively on what you NEED to accomplish to reach the top of your 144 stairway to success].
Our BIGG quote today is actually a definition. No one claims it, perhaps for a reason ….
mul•ti-task•ing (mŭl’tē-tăs’kĭng, -tī-) n.
Screwing up everything simultaneously.
So make sure you stay focused so you only screw up one thing at a time!
Next time, we’ll share an ancient Chinese secret to solve all of your problems. You’ll be amazed at how simple it is! Until then, here’s to your BIGG success!
https://biggsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/bigg-success_stacked-1080.png10801080George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Fosterhttps://biggsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BIGG-Success-Nurturing-Your-Inner-Entreprener.jpgGeorge Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster2008-02-25 00:13:102022-11-01 12:00:20Can You Walk And Chew Gum At The Same Time?
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For example, is it really necessary to take (or make) a call while going to the bathroom? Yet I’ve seen guys standing at the urinal while talking on their phones. If you make this a practice, do you flush? 
I was in a store a few days ago. The woman behind the counter was vacuuming while she talked on the phone. I just don’t know how you combine those two tasks effectively. 
