"I hate my computer. It is so slow!"
- Any office worker in the past week
I love when something we use everyday gives us a chance to learn a GOOD business lesson. Today's example – your computer. Mac or PC? Does not really matter in this case. The lesson comes from how the computer WORKS.
Your computer, similar to your mind, is a tool that continually is using resources to ANALYZE and ACT accordingly to priority of needs. If you are working in Excel, your computer will seek to provide the majority of its resources to that application, although, it does continually look for additional "open" applications. When it does not see any, it continues to drive the majority of resources to Excel. However…
When there are multiple applications or windows open, the computer becomes OVERWHELMED and begins to delegate resources across all the open applications. What happens as a RESULT? PERFORMANCE slows and FRUSTRATION increases. The system, TAXED by too many open tasks, eventually shuts down… :(
2 DEGREE SUCCESS STEP:
If your computer could tell you, or if you had my wife to remind you, it would say, "FOCUS on one thing and knock it out… then work on the next thing!"
By LIMITING the number of open tasks on your computer, it is able to FOCUS its resources into the open application and run very efficiently. By LIMITING the number of open tasks you FOCUS on at work, you are also able to dedicate the majority of brainpower and physical resources to execution.
Whoever invented "MULTI-TASKING" was a fool! Rather than EXECUTE one task at a time with high efficiency and great effectiveness, they SUGGEST you should work on ten tasks in a half-assed manner and somehow that "gets more done."
Learn from your computer – FOCUS on one task and DEDICATE your resources or be subject to a slow down, maybe even a TOTAL SYSTEM CRASH!
Cheers!
Zach (the now vented version)
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