About multi-tasking, focus and energy

This is no secret I like to manage many things at once. I have my work at Whoz as a developer, I also manage the social media of Whoz by organizing blog posts publications, writing many posts myself, I also keep working on everything I have around Asana and always looking for ways to make it beneficial for Whoz, I just started writing a new book about minimalism, writing more and more on Medium and that was not enough so we recently decided to have a second child and build a house :)

When a computer is multi-tasking, it looks like it is doing multiple things at once. But this is an illusion, it only switches very very quickly between tasks. [experts might argue that a multi-core computer does several things at once]

A human can do the same but that is proven to be highly inefficient. Even if I manage to juggle with a lot in Asana, I understood that I can only be fully focused on one subject at the time, on top of my full-time job.

When I say focused, I mean in term of motivation and energy. Even if I am able to make progress on everything at the same time, my creativity and motivation lies in one place only. So I learned to listen to myself and identify where my motivation is. Then I proceed to squeeze all that motivation as hard as possible and go as far as possible before it fades away.

My motivation fading or increasing can happen for various reasons. A good news about another project would make me shift towards it. A bad news or frustration in my currently hot project would make me shift away. I am learning to be less and less sensible to those outside stimulus though.

Do you do many things at the same time yourself? Did you find a way to stay sane and make progress everywhere? Do you have tips to share?