Focusing on One Task at a Time

If you want to generate quality ouput or results in whatever you are doing, you should put your 100% attention to every detail of your work. We cannot deny that multi-tasking is helpful. It gets the job don. But most of the time, the results are of sub par quality. I belong in the IT industry. And from what I have experienced so far, I have learned that the quality of your output will always out-weigh its quantity. A software application is better off with few and essential features with optimal performance than being packed with a bunch of half baked features that will eventually lead to a slow perfomance and dirty code implementation.

Going back to life in general, if we put our 100% focus on a specific task, we tend to do well with it. As I write this article, I am putting off other tasks in front of me and I am bringing my full attention to this article. I am not a professional writer but as I chip down the words of this blog post, I know that I am effectively delivering the message that I want to share to the readers. I use my 100% attention and intense focus to build an informative and enlightening article that will somehow make an influence to my readers. If I am writing this article while doing something else, my message may not be conveyed properly. I may miss out on some significant details that should have made an impact to the readers.

It is in every person's nature to seek self development. And in order to feel that we are indeed improving our lives, we should be able to see quality results in everything we do. Everyone has something on his or her plate.

• A singer's plate may contain: writing songs, creating an album, performing at gigs, looking for sponsors, inspiring people with music. 
• A doctor's plate may contain: continuous research in the medical field, serving patients, helping interns, performing medical operations, saving lives.
• A software developer's plate may contain: creating software applications, optimizing application features, researching on new technologies and designs.

We'd love to generate excellent results on each of those things placed on our plates. If we juggle our time managing one task to another, we might lose our heads in the process. It will cause a tremendous amount of stress. Or worse, we'll accomplish nothing. Results will be rushed, half-baked and of poor quality.

Yes, we want to achieve more. We want to learn more, do more. But we can only do this by focusing on things one at a time.