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Using text messaging productively

Using text messaging productively

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Using text messaging productively

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- I want to tackle a challenging subject, perhaps even a controversial subject when it comes to time management. I ask for your patience as you and I explore this together. The topic is text messaging. Because people are so comfortable with text messaging in a personal context, they may have the tendency to carry text messaging into the professional context, into business. When they do this, it creates all sorts of problems. One of the biggest problems is that people typically keep their text message app open, meaning they've set it up to notify them at anytime. If you're familiar with my work on the myth of multitasking, you'll know that if you leave yourself open to switches in attention like this, it's going to chew up your productivity very, very quickly. Constantly jumping from one thing to another is switch tasking and it's highly counterproductive. This isn't to say that text messaging doesn't have value, it just needs…

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