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Multitasking versus Habit Stacking

Habit Stacking

Put your hand up if you fall victim to not feeling like you have done enough. Are you your own worst critic? Society and watching everyone on social media can make you feel like your life just is not on track. But it is. Remember, you can have or do anything you want in life, but you can’t do it all. Pick and choose what matters to you most. Then, make a list and do everything you can that day to the best of your ability, but do not try to do tomorrow’s work. Remember, you are no good to anyone or yourself if you are burnt out.

Now, I want you to go back through the rules you made for life and look at what habits could be paired together or what could be batched. You will look at my list for examples. Let me show you what I habitually stack to eliminate resistance and form a trigger to help me remember to perform the actions until they become automated.

OK, so you learned the brain cannot multitask. But remember, multitasking means task switching, where you are going back and forth between tasks. You have learned your brain can't do that. BUT, your brain CAN do two things at once at the same time IF it is not switching tasks. HUH? Yes, this is a great brain hack; it is called habit stacking. Your brain can't multitask because of the way it processes tasks. Remember, your brain is a piece of equipment and thus has ways it works best and ways it doesn't. So you need to know what processes do work and what it can perform so you can hack it.

See, habit stacking is not task switching, where you go back and forth. Habit stacking is doing two tasks at the same time. Easy example: every time I walk on the treadmill, I will answer my emails, or every time I am doing my makeup in the bathroom mirror in the morning, I will listen to that motivational podcast or inspirational talk. Your brain is not switching back and forth between walking or typing your emails, nor is it switching tasks as you apply your makeup and listen. It is doing both at the same time, thus there is no switching, and thus there is no exhaustion.

Now, you can't pair everything together, but there are a lot of tasks you can pair together and habit stack in your day to compound your time without exhausting your brain by multitasking.

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