Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

2021. Today we're going to do a little exercise. Out loud, I want you to say the alphabet as fast as you can.

The American alphabet as fast as you can out loud. In three, two, one, go.

And stop. Hopefully, you have mastered the alphabet and you're able to get it within the time

I just gave you. Now, what you're going to do, out loud, you're going to count to the number

26. Now, why do I choose 26? Is because there are 26 letters in the alphabet.

Out loud, count to 26 as fast as you can

in three, two, one, go.

And stop.

Once again, hopefully you're able to finish you that time.

Now, the third round is you're going to count out loud.

You're going to combine the two.

You're going to say A1, B, 2, C, 3, D, 4, E5, as fast as you can all the way to 26, on your mark, get set, go.

And stop, I'm going to interrupt you.

Chances are you're not even close.

So what's the lesson?

The lesson is when you try to multitask,

you end up taking a lot longer than doing things individually. You're able to go really fast doing the alphabet. You're going to able to go really fast doing the numbers,

counting the 26. But when you combine the two, thinking that you're going to do two things at once,

you actually go much slower. And the same holds true for life. When we try, if you're trying

to do two things at once and it is actually making you less effective

less productive focus on doing one thing at a time batch your tasks to get through it more

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