One Thing at a Time

Did you know that multi-tasking is stress inducing? Our brain is made in a way that it can only tend to one thing at a time. When we are doing several things at once, our brain switches back and forth continuously. Over time the brain tires and we feel stressed. A study actually showed that blood pressure was higher for people who habitually multi-tasked.

Since mistakes and accidents are more likely to happen when we multi-task, doing more than one thing at a time may actually be less efficient. Because we become desensitized to how we feel, multi-taskers might no longer experience how stressed they might actually be while thus engaged. If you habitually multi-task, try just doing one thing at a time for one hour and notice what that might be like for you.