Dr. Zelana Montminy

And sometimes meetings are important.

There's connection, there's rapport between the client and whatever it is.

It's important to bake that into a system in which when you are doing your work, you're chunking that out so that you can actually sustain focus.

You're not doing multiple things at one time.

There's an illusion of productivity.

Oh, I just have to, because there's so much coming at me.

It's just not how it works.

When you actually single task, you're much more productive.

You get a lot more done.

You're much more efficient by about 40%.

So you get a dopamine hit.

Like it feels good to check off multiple boxes at one time.

And it feels like progress.

But what we're actually doing is fragmenting our presence.

We're not actually multiplying output.

I think it has to start with whatever period you have that you have a moment to calibrate what it is that's worthy of your attention in that day.

And everything feels like a lot.

Like so many of us are just utterly overwhelmed by tasks and by things that are coming at us and parents.

have so much more to deal with in terms of just the forms that need to be filled out, the things that need to be purchased constantly.

It's just non stop and not even talking about the invisible and mental labor of caretaking or parenting or whatever it is that you're doing outside of your job.