Fuel Your Mind

A weekly newsletter with practical, powerful, bite-sized lessons to shift your mindset, habits, and life—one idea at a time.

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The Hidden Cost of Multitasking

Welcome back to Fuel Your Mind — your weekly spark for personal growth and sharper thinking.

Each issue delivers:

10 powerful ideas to challenge your mindset
Curated content to inspire action
Practical tools to help you become your best self

This week’s theme:

The hidden cost of multitasking — splitting your focus always taxes your future self.

We glorify multitasking. Answering emails while on a call. Jumping between projects. Scrolling while half-listening.

It feels productive in the moment, but it isn’t. Multitasking doesn’t save time—it steals it.

Every time you split your focus, you pay a hidden tax: slower progress, weaker memory, and more mistakes.

And here’s the kicker: your future self is the one footing the bill.

Clarity, speed, and energy come from doing one thing at a time.

Not three.

The real power move?

Monotasking.

Top 10 Ideas of the Week

The Cost of Multitasking. Focus is Your Edge.

Woman talking on phone at desk with laptop

Here’s your weekly spark to think deeper, act smarter, and grow stronger:

1. Notice when you are task-switching and write it down when it happens.

→ 📖 Read: Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work

2. Close extra tabs on your browser and keep only what you are working on.

→ 📔 Try: Keep only one Chrome tab extension open at a time.

3. Batch tasks, and group emails, calls, and messages.

→ 📖 Read: Deep Work by Cal Newport

4. Use the Pomodoro Technique, where you work 25 minutes and break for 5 minutes, then repeat.

→ 📔 Try: TomatoTimer

5. Protect your mornings for deep work before your world steals your attention.

→ 📖 Read: Optimize Your Day: Find Your Peak Productivity Times

6. Ask: Is this task worth splitting my focus?

→ 📖 Read: 7 Little Tweaks for Enhanced Daily Productivity

7. Silence technology notifications and intentionally decide what deserves your attention.

→ 📖 Read: Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal

8. Do an "attention audit" to see where your attention goes.

→ 📔 Try: Daily Growth Journal

9. Replace background noise with intentional silence.

→ 📖 Read: How Listening to Silence Changes Our Brains

10. Remember you are training your brain, so every multitasking moment strengthens distraction.

→ 📖 Read: The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin

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Why it works:

A clutter-free, elevated setup trains your brain to focus on one task at a time.
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Small change. Huge difference.

👉 See FlexiSpot on Amazon

Multitasking: Productivity’s Greatest Lie

Person typing on a laptop at a wooden desk.

We’ve been sold the lie that multitasking is efficient.

In reality, it’s a productivity killer in disguise.

Science shows multitasking reduces intelligence quotient (IQ) as much as losing a full night’s sleep. It lowers accuracy, increases stress, and even shrinks the brain’s gray matter in areas linked to focus.

The brain is not designed to parallel process complex tasks.

What we call multitasking is really “task switching” or rapidly shifting attention back and forth. Each switch comes with a cognitive “reset cost.”

That’s why writing an email while on Zoom leaves you drained and behind on both.

Want to get more done? Do less at once.

Turn off Slack or TEAMS while writing.
Leave your phone in another room during meetings.
Dedicate blocks of time for deep work, and guard them.

Multitasking taxes your future self. Monotasking invests in them.

Featured Resource

The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done by Dave Crenshaw

This short, practical book blows up the myth that you can juggle multiple tasks without consequence. Crenshaw explains why every switch costs you time, focus, and energy.

And how to retrain yourself to work with clarity instead of chaos.

Packed with stories, humor, and exercises, this book is both eye-opening and liberating. It gives you permission to stop splitting your attention (and the tools to actually do it).

👉 Read it on Amazon