| At any given point - whether at work or in your | | | | overwhelm you to the point that it stops you dead in |
| personal life you may just be overwhelmed with all the | | | | your tracks with dread , then a most useful and |
| tasks that you have to do or complete. It may cause | | | | accomplished tactic is to take bite sized pieces. Split |
| you great anxiety or just be an annoyance. Still these | | | | the task or task into smaller pieces or components. |
| "things" or activities need to get done. There may be | | | | Try to accomplish only one of these tasks at a time. In |
| time pressure, peer pressure, family pressure or | | | | your mind think of the task as a number of simple |
| pressure from the "hated boss", supervisor, manager | | | | attainable tasks that you complete one at a time. Finish |
| or even your spouse or best friend. | | | | and accomplish these tasks one at a time to |
| What to do? The activity or all the activates may be | | | | completion. |
| minor or they may be overwhelming. It may be just too | | | | Most people can finish to fruition a number of smaller |
| great an amount of tasks or it may be just perception | | | | tasks. If the sum of these tasks was attempted by the |
| - not that much really, or too many activities yet the | | | | same people, as one large giant task then in many if |
| last one is the straw that broke the camels back - or | | | | not most cases, little or nothing would get done. |
| at least it seems that way. In the end all that matters is | | | | Break the large task into a number of smaller tasks. |
| how you feel about it or put another way - it's all your | | | | The smaller tasks are not only less intimidating in |
| perception that matters. | | | | nature, but the inertia of accomplishment as well as |
| If you want to make an analogy - that if the task | | | | what you learn along the path of completion will help |
| seems too large or the number of tasks seems too | | | | you guide you and speed you along the way. It might |
| many for you to cope with or handle, then try to do | | | | be called an approach of cutting the salami into slices |
| only thing at a time. Our life is made as it were, of little | | | | or eating an elephant. In the end it's a way of breaking |
| grains of sands passing by the narrowest part of an | | | | down a task or series of tasks that may see |
| hourglass. Those grains of sand can pass easily one | | | | overwhelming or beyond your skills and attributes into |
| by one - but try to force the flow through that smallest | | | | smaller segments and pieces that can be done, |
| limiting part of a sand hourglass and indeed the flow | | | | accomplished and finished. |
| will stop dead and the hourglass can even be ruined. | | | | Most people can only concentrate on one task at a |
| So is it with our lives, the anxiety and worry created | | | | time. Even if your job or personal life makes demands |
| and in the end how we cope, or do not cope, and | | | | to "Multitask", you may find the whole concept of |
| ultimately what we accomplish and finish with our lives, | | | | "multitasking "way to difficult and demanding. Break |
| its work and our activities. | | | | down the tasks into smaller tasks and segments. Do |
| Most people, your self included, can only do one thing | | | | these to completion one at a time. Remember in the |
| at a time. That is all you should try for. If you can juggle | | | | end - it is the results that matter. Any journey is |
| multiple tasks (commonly called "multitasking"), then | | | | completed through small and smaller steps, done one |
| great. However if you encounter tasks that | | | | at a time. |