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"Tomatoes and Time Management"

This post was written by Nora Rive Bergman: "I've written more than one post about the evils of interruptions and multitasking.  Interruptions steal your time.  In fact, recent brain scan research shows that it can take our brains up to 20 minutes to recover from an interruption.  Multitasking, or as Dave Crenshaw, author of The Myth of Multitasking, refers to it - "switchtasking" - only serves to shorten our attention spans and make us more susceptible to interruptions - both internal and external.  Interruptions and multitasking create a sort of self-induced ADD.

As a practice advisor with Atticus, I've coached my clients for years on the importance of "Power Hours..." 

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Source: Real Life Practice, 7 September 2010. © Real Life Practice, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).