it helps to save time you become used to the hustlebustle of life what was earlier limited to juggling between two and three tasks at the same time is now replaced by social media and technology it helps to focus all your energies on a single task life coach milind jadhav elaborates switching your focus from one task to the other makes you lose momentum create a todo list plan have some clarity and allot not more than two or maximum three major tasks for a day how can you best achieve itonce you get accustomed to the chaos it may take you a while before you can do one thing at a time why one should try it out the fastpaced city life makes one feel they need to achieve a lot in a quest to match up with the moving times most people end up multitasking leading to a complete burnout here are some measures that can help you unitask with perfection step aside from tasks that mentally challenge you every once in a while most people who come to me for consultation know the minuses of multitasking but continue doing it because they feel they are underperforming while monotasking all of this is in place and the results are better adds rajesh similarly if you mix tasks at home the punishment can be assigning certain chores to the one who violates the rule do not check your phone or listen to songs as it might lead you off track doing one thing at a time leads to increased accuracy innovation and helps accomplish a task speedily when multitasking we decrease our potential for perfection lower our performance levels and place ourselves at risk for stress errors and inefficiency studies have indicated that it can reduce ones productivity by as much as 40 per cent according to a recent study every time we switch between tasks we tend to drain out our neural resources thereby feeling tired at the end of the day psychiatrist and cognitive therapist shefali batra says the human mind isnt designed to accomplish several things at once multitasking on the other hand leads to forgetfulness among youngsters as well sideeffects from physical stress to emotional breakdown at an early age studies say that multitasking creates a bottleneck of responses thereby causing stress some of the other reasons why people are taking to monotasking are its a winwin situation psychiatrist rajesh goyal says while performing a task there are four important factors that come into play attention concentration registration and retrieval make a pact with yourself and because you are always tired you dont itch to do things you love though many of us wish to we often lack the ability to accomplish all of it at one time monotaskingread also3 indulge in an activity that will not take over what you are already up to walk a few steps listen to the sounds of nature or simply peep