There was a time that I thought being able to do two or three different things at the same time was a great skill to have. On a phone call with a client while updating a spreadsheet with data while watching (more like listening) to Oprah give away goodies to her audience…. Can you imagine? That used to be me.
Inc.com published an article by Lou Dubois recently, and shares several ways to organize your business using Google. Organizing all the goodness you come up with when creating can be hard to keep track of. When creating, multitasking will cut down on your creative power by clogging up your head with too much good stuff. (Probably some bad stuff too!)
I learned back in November of 2010 to download often. (MTH2010) Downloading often (doing a data dump of your head) and using Google to hold the information for you as described in the article is genius! Not only will you avoid clogging up your brain, but your office won’t be clogged up with paper and debris from your brainstorming session.
“At any given moment, your brain can hold no more than 5 to 9 items at once in short-term memory, as Merrill notes in the book. As you need more space (when multitasking) and try to remember more, your brain pushes items into long-term memory, until they are needed again. That process is far from foolproof.”
So stop…slow down and refresh. Release all that goodness you’ve come up with today so you avoid overwhelm and watered down ideas!
Until next time…
Aspire!
