Freelancers and entrepreneurs often struggle with unfinished to-do lists, and work days that run way too late. Moving tasks to the side is rarely an option, especially if you are just starting out.

It is easy to see, once again, that we have set an unrealistic number of tasks for company officers to accomplish in a time span of four to eight minutes. Even if they are skilled at each task, they ...

Multitasking is a myth, says Daniel Levitin. This was the premise underlying the first of the tasks posed by WNYC's Note to Self podcast. I had signed up for their five-day set of challenges in hopes ...