 You recommend that workaholics and others change several behaviors, so let's just take a few. First, avoid multitasking. Why? Well, because multitasking is not what it's crept up to be. There's research coming out now showing that people who do one thing at a time are going to be more effective and more productive and enjoy their work more in the end. When you're doing two or three things at once, you're really not focused on the one thing that needs to be taken care of.