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Best Practices to Overcome "Task Saturation"
It's a common term among air force jet pilots, but we all get a taste of this overwhelming experience in our daily life
Does your workday feel like one step forward and two steps back? Mine often does — not always, but often. I'm trying to get better at prioritizing. After being in the workforce for several years, you'd think this priority thing would be more intuitive.
We hear all the time how prioritizing our life is the secret sauce to getting it all done while feeling less overwhelmed, but those are only words. What does practical prioritization look like in practice? There's a good resource in the form of a book: Do What Matters Most. It's loaded with great tips and tools to help identify your priorities and keep them in focus.
Prioritize what matters most
One of the authors shares a story about a US air force pilot. On a routine training exercise, he banks his plane into a 180-degree turn. He gets a warning alert on the control panel.
He quickly checks the switches and buttons when suddenly another jet soars across his flight path. Both aircraft are going 1000 mph and come close to collision. They miss each other by less than 100 feet.
