Ehab Mohsen
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I've been using GTD for years, but can't find literature on helping with "task switching".
i find it's mentally "painful" and energy draining to switch gears between a number of projects throughout the day. When you add up how much time i need to spend on each project in a day (e.g., 1-2 hours across, say, 3-4 projects), time-wise it's actually quite reasonable (~8 hours). But it's so hard for me to switch gears. I either avoid switching, or stall, or take a long break to get back in the zone. Worth pointing out that these are 'thinking' projects, typically writing and authoring presentation material.
Since one of the GTD principles is to finding "tricks" to help you .. anybody know of any way to help with this? And any good literature on the subject? The only thing I can find is Wikipedia and it's quite dry.
Thanks in advance
i find it's mentally "painful" and energy draining to switch gears between a number of projects throughout the day. When you add up how much time i need to spend on each project in a day (e.g., 1-2 hours across, say, 3-4 projects), time-wise it's actually quite reasonable (~8 hours). But it's so hard for me to switch gears. I either avoid switching, or stall, or take a long break to get back in the zone. Worth pointing out that these are 'thinking' projects, typically writing and authoring presentation material.
Since one of the GTD principles is to finding "tricks" to help you .. anybody know of any way to help with this? And any good literature on the subject? The only thing I can find is Wikipedia and it's quite dry.
Thanks in advance