Welcome to Darin Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Good morning, so are you ready for a full-out and fast-paced day?

Well, the treadmill of life has sped up.

Have you noticed?

More and more is coming at us constantly.

Alerts, emails, text messages, notifications, updates, and feeds, and the rest.

In the attempt to keep up with it all, we end up looking like an octopus and heat,

appendages flying everywhere, right?

Each task conversation meeting opens up new applications and browser tabs on your brain,

with each one of them drawing resources on your cognitive power and attention.

And then you wonder why?

In the next conversation, or meeting, you are not able to fully listen, engage, or bring

your best creative self.

You have all these open tabs running in your head.

As you know, I do a lot of keynote presentations.

And the same computer that I do all my work on is the computer that drives my slide deck.

And I have found that if I have a bunch of programs running simultaneously to my keynote

program that they can interfere with the performance of the one application that's critical

to me when I'm on stage.

So before I plug my computer into the AV system, I close down all my internet tabs and browsers

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