Hi, welcome back! My name is Gideon Shalwick. This is the Insights Into Freedom video series.

I want to share with you some of the key things that I’ve learned about getting more freedom in my life.

Inside this video I’m going to continue the insights that I had during my working career. I worked for about five years after I studied for about five years. During this time I learned a bunch of really cool insights.

The second key insight that I learned is the insight that multitasking really sucks and can be very damaging to your progress.

This may be counter-intuitive because a lot of you maybe thinking that the better you can multitask, the better you can run multiple projects at the same time and the better you can show progress.

Well, I think it’s one of those things that are counter-intuitive.

Through Eben Pagan and Rich Schefren, two of my key mentors, I’ve learned that success is not intuitively obvious and this is one of those things.

When you look at the way that tasks work. Say you have three tasks to complete. Say for example you want to break each of these tasks into smaller chunks. So you do a little bit of Task A; you don’t finish it. And then you do a little bit of Task B and you don’t finish it. And then you do a little bit of Task C and you don’t finish it.

And you go through that cycle again — a little bit of A, a little bit of B, a little bit of C and still don’t finish it. And you do it again — a little bit of A, a little bit of B, a little bit of C.

Then finally after those three cycles perhaps you will have finished all of those three tasks.

Now, look at how long it takes you just to finish one task. It takes forever. And look how long it takes you to finish all three projects.

Those are two important things to look at.

Compare this to scenario 2 where you take the same three tasks and you start one and you finish it.

So you do task A; work at it until completion and you will move on to task B. You work on it until completion and then work on task C until completion.

Now look at how quickly you can get one of the tasks done. You can get some progress already much much quicker than the scenario one. And also look at how much quicker you can get all three tasks done.

What’s the reason for this?

Well when you multitask, every time you start and stop a task, there’s a bit of start and stop time. You get to warm up your thoughts and get yourself into gear again for that new task. There’s a starting up time and shutting down time for each, each time you start and stop a task.

When you’re just focusing on one task at a time and finishing it, you cut down on those multiple starts and stops. That’s why you can get the work done much faster.

If that makes sense to you, plot that out. I mean, think about it for yourself. Think it through.

Get rid of multitasking in your life. Unless you’re in the kitchen and cooking a meal, then multitasking is useful. But in business multitasking is evil. It is bad for progress.

That’s one of the key things that I learned while I was working.

I read an amazing book called “The Goal” by  Eliyahu M. Goldratt. Well, actually this is another one by  Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s critical chain which is all about project management and time management.  That’s where he shared with me with this whole evil thing about multitasking, very very powerful stuff.

If you can get rid of multitasking in your life, you can get projects done faster; which means you can get money coming in sooner; which means you can build those assets, that income that you need and whatever else you need for leverage to help you get more freedom in your life and in your business.

There’s lots more coming inside this particular section for my work days. There’s one more insight that I want to share with you and then I will get into the freedom and financial models for this work life or this professional model that I want to share with you.

Thanks for watching and I’ll see you inside the next video.