When your mouth is too full it takes longer to get your food all chewed up and swallowed, plus, the risk of choking on your food is increased, and you won’t look too pretty with your mouth stuffed either. In business, taking on more work than you can handle will obviously slow you down. It’s even possible you’ll crash and burn before you manage to get halfway through your workload.

Know your limits and respect them. Never act on impulse. If an idea strikes you suddenly, write it down and forget about it for 48 hours. After 48 hours come back to it and begin to analyze it. Try to tear it apart intentionally. If, after you’ve looked at every angle good and bad, you still think it’s a great idea that you want to act on, move to the next step of trying to determine if you have the time to take on a new project. The more things you have on your plate, the less time you have to give to each. Multi-tasking is talked about in such a way as if it’s something great. People pat themselves on the back for being able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, but if you divide your attention 5 ways, you’re not really giving 100% of your attention to any of your various tasks, and any time you’re giving less than 100% you can expect to get less than 100%.

Keep things manageable in order to get things done.