The Hidden Cost of Switching Tasks Before You Finish

Your mind has an ability to stress you unnecessarily again and again.

So to give you an example of how it happens.

So.

He's just sitting,

Working on his computer and.

.

.

Out of the corner of his eyes.

He sees that the neighbor has started cutting the hedge.

And immediately he thinks,

Oh God,

I need to do that as well.

And the thought can't leave him.

So eventually he leaves what he was about or he was doing at the computer.

To go cut.

The hitch.

So he didn't finish his work at the computer.

It's still there waiting for him when he gets back.

So now he's got two jobs.

Here.

And it drags a trail of cortisol,

Stress hormone,

After him.

Because he didn't finish it.

So a way of helping yourself when and if this occurs to you as well.

Is to say,

Okay.

Is this something that needs to be done by me?

And is it something that I need to do now?

So a good idea is to finish what you were doing.

Write down if you're afraid of remembering.

The new job that was just put into your mind.

Then write it down.

Finish what you were doing.

Because when you finish the job you are doing,

Then your brain also says,

Yes,

We're done.

And then you actually get a dopamine reward.

This feel-good hormone.

That you get when you finish something or you buy something new or you eat something that's not always good for you.

Then you get a dopamine reward.

And we really want the dopamine reward.

But you don't get that if you leave the task you were doing.

To start a new one.

You can compare it to the game Pac-Man.

You know,

The little thing.

You can only do the one just in front of you.

You can't skip.

And take more at one time.

You need to take the one in front of you.

So I hope this was useful for you.

To pay attention to the new jobs that your brain is starting.