How do you develop the judgment to know that priority number one is more important than number two or number three? Is that just a matter of the focusing question? Yes. The short answer is, you don't always know. But you make a decision, you declare one to be number one, and you whack away at it, and you learn. Multi tasking does not lead to extraordinary results. In fact, research shows that when we multitask, we waste 28 % of our time. You could literally get a hundred per cent of your work load done in three, six days if you did one thing at a time instead of everything at the same time.