This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

As somebody who loves to do everything at once, have everything, or experience everything and leave nothing out, I am prone to multitasking,

When you look at the research, it takes 32 minutes to come back from a distraction.

If you are multitasking your day away, there are a variety of things that are going to be challenging for you.

Number one is your momentum can get messed up because you keep changing your thinking and focus, and it’s taking 32 minutes for you to get back.

Secondly, you are tainting the work time and the free time you have structured into your calendar.

When you are doing that, you’re keeping yourself from getting the full benefit of the work.

A lot of people say, “How can I only work 5 hours?”.

“How can I only work 6 hours?”

You do that by focusing completely on what you’re doing while you’re working and then focusing completely on the free or unstructured time between segments of work.

This has helped me because it has taken away this resentment I can have towards a rigorous schedule.

I am to the point where when I unplug for downtime, I am unplugged and I get relaxed, playful, and happy.

When I come back to work again, I’m excited because I’ve been fulfilled in my non-work time.

Look at how you are using time and how it is stopping or forwarding momentum.

Where are your weak spots?

Where are you getting sloppy in your structure and the principles

of the five-hour workday?

Where are you super efficient and your momentum is forwarded?

Where are you feeling like you stop your momentum?

It can be simple things like what you choose to think about and how you choose to think about them.

We are talking this week about continuing to make sure that the energy you expelled by building and starting momentum can be perpetuated so you are riding in the draft as the peloton does.

Anytime you can add to what’s already in motion, you are taking advantage of earlier effort.

I saw this every time I started to run again from not running.

It was much harder to build up than it was to maintain, and easy to drop the ball and let the momentum stop.

Each time I started again, I realized and would ask myself, why I would stop, knowing how much effort it takes to restart the momentum.

What would it look like if you were cognizant of how momentum works and you didn’t drop the ball on your momentum?

What do you think would happen to your productivity and feeling of satisfaction?

Look over how you operate today and see where you could make subtle, fine, effective adjustments.

Have a beautiful day.