Once again we turn to technology to help.  However the reason we need help relates to the abundance of technology in our lives.  We are wired, tracked, and expected to respond to  multiple demands on our time throughout the day.  The stresses created by multitasking affect us physically, and one victim of this barrage is our memory.
Things come in [...]

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Executive Funtion: assessing, prioritizing, assigning mental functions, tracking multiple activities, reflecting
These are all characteristics that a good executive performs daily. They are also the tasks that emanate from your brain’s prefrontal cortex. This region of your brain is the one that sustains the most damage from prolonged periods of stress.
In our fast-paced [...]

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“Where did this week go?”
That common phrase can be interpreted in two different ways:

It was a great week. I had so much fun/got so much done that it flew by.
I don’t feel that I accomplished anything I had planned, and it is already the end of the week.

It is not hard to figure out [...]

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Job Advertisement: “Must be good at multitasking.”
Obviously the company that posted the above ad is not up-to-date on current research which shows that no one is good at multitasking. Now I realize that you are probably disagreeing with me right now, since you multitask throughout the day, but reality is that our brains [...]

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80% of crashes and 65% of near crashes occur with three seconds of a multitasking episode involving physical movement. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration & Virginia Tech Transportation Institute)
Notice that this is not even taking into account mental lapses while we work though an office problem or personal dilemma. We’ve all been [...]

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Here’s one more dig at multitasking: a study reported by the Wall Street Journal (January 3) suggests that drivers who are talking on cell phones drive slower and that interferes with the flow of traffic.
Are you surprised by that? Probably not. In my time management seminars, one of our focal points is [...]

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Do you multitask?
Of course you do…we all do! There have been several times that I’ve had to email someone, shush the dog, check on dinner, and look up the number for the doctor all at the same time. Fortunately for me, none of those things were life threatening or would have ended my job.
How do [...]

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We have all been guilty of it at some point: talking to one person on the phone while allowing ourselves to be distracted by email or web surfing at the same time. We think no one will notice as we respond with, “Uh huh…sure…right…OK..um…” Multitasking studies have shown us that doing two things at one [...]

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Recently one of our blog postings, Time Management and Unconscious Obstacles, commented on how just the implication of a stereotype affected performance, even when you consciously debunk it. Multitasking is one of those characteristics that lends itself to debate as to which gender handles multiple activitities better.
In 2005 Rutgers University conducted a survey and [...]

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Driving While Texting (DWT) is an issue being taken up with some state legislatures after enough car accidents have occurred because of the distraction. We already know that distractions from eating, putting on makeup, changing CDs, and cell phone usage are potentially dangerous for us and those around us. DWT may be the [...]

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