)Getting a lot of things done? That’s not a bad trait at all. It means you’re testing different hypotheses. Your head is busier than that of a single-task worker. You try more to quickly choose the task that will be most beneficial.
A lazy, cunning person will only take on one of the easiest tasks — and only in the last minute.
Many tasks start because they’re done step by step. And when one task is put on pause (for example, while waiting for feedback), another one appears. If you for each task create a card with a statement and action plan, then that’s fine. But if you work without a definition or plan, in such tasks both you and your team will lose time and energy trying to reconstruct the sequence and history.
Having many unfinished tasks isn’t a problem. This is similar to another trait: when a person acquires too many things. That’s not bad at all. It means they have enough inner strength and resources to manage those things, because ownership is a process of moving from one state to another. Those who can’t cope with this just throw the stuff away. Others find ways to bring everything into order: sorting, arranging, finding uses, planning reuse, selling or giving it away.
And yes, I’m not discussing the extreme cases that in such situations point to pathology rather than common sense.
Keep going. Create and explore new horizons. Find your balance between the number of thoughts, things, and closets.
