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After an intentionally very chilled August (unusual for me, as I tend to always fill my time with something), I had a frantic September.
I went from 10 to 100 miles/hour overnight.
I was excited to get started on lots of new ideas for the business; I spent two weeks writing the book proposal for the book on mentioned at the start of this newsletter.
In the meantime, I started a business development coaching programme, while juggling coaching sessions and other work.
I thought, of course, I'm tired, I'm always on.
And although this is definitely a factor in the way I feel, it's not the full story.
I was listening to Cal Newport's Deep Life podcast the other day when he said something that resonated.
You get really tired when you have too many different "context switches" in your day, meaning you switch back and forth between different projects, and within them, you deal with emails, Slack, admin, writing reports, LinkedIn, meetings...
Your brain cannot physically multitask - I spoke about it in a previous newsletter - so all this attention-switching is sending it into overdrive and over-tiring it.
The solution?
If you can, decide at the beginning of the day which projects you will be working on and deal with all the activities (emails, meetings, reports, social media) related to that one project in one go.
Spend two or three hours sorting out all the bits and bobs related to that one project and ignore everything else, then move on to the next project.
You could even theme your days after the projects you are working on, and deep dive into them for the full length of the day.
The results will be twofold: better quality outcomes and less tiredness.
What's not to like!!
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