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Most people are aware that the term multi tasking means doing more than one thing at a time. Multi shifting is focusing on accomplishing one thing at a time but accomplishing many things within a period of time. We wear many hats in our life that makes us responsible for many things. We may be caring for surviving parents, sharing your life with a spouse or life partner, or maybe you have one or more children. We also need to take care of our health and all the responsibilities of being an effective provider.
In addition, if you work for yourself or in sales you have to constantly juggle client service, new business development, and coordinating operations, just to name a few. To best explain multi shifting all you need to do is look at a professional football team. At first glance you see one team, however if you look more closely you will see three distinct teams that make up the one, offense, defense and special teams. You are not running your offense, defense and special teams at the same time that would be multitasking. You are shifting the entire focus on the field on an as need basis one aspect of the team at a time through out the game. At the drop of the ball the next team takes the field.
At any given moment the needs of the needs on the field may completely change into a totally different set of objectives. Now when we go to work on Monday morning you can’t just tell our families “I’ll see you on Friday afternoon”. Throughout the week we need to keep shifting into our different responsibilities.
The best approach is to have an overall effective plan that we can coordinate and execute throughout the week that needs to be accomplished. It is the art of designing and knowing how to shift focus and shift again. We need to understand how to integrate several productive activities over a period of time so we can be effective in all the areas we need to get positive results. Multi shifting allows you to work in your effective zone. That is when we are shifting smoothly from one need to another.
The most effective action items are being addressed and acted upon in some sort systematic fashion. You are confidently shifting from focus area to another focus area. We also need to know what it feels like to be operating in our effective zone and when to recognize when we have fallen out of it. The goal isn’t to be in the zone 100% of the time but to know when and how to turn it on, to be operating there most of the time when it is necessary to be as effective as possible.
Moving out of your effective zone is most commonly caused by disorganization, unclear priorities, or self sabotaging thoughts. Mastering the art of multi-shifting and working in your effective zone is the point of impact that enables you to turn your dreams to reality.