Word of the Week: Expeditiously

Expeditiously (adverb)

Pronunciation
ek-spi-dish-uhs-lee

Definition
Characterized by promptness, acting with speed or efficiency

Example Sentence
No one wanted to be in a meeting for two hours, so they conducted the business expeditiously.

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The temptation to procrastinate is everywhere. In work or school, we tend to put things off or do them slowly. It can take an hour to do a project that should only take half an hour, because we get distracted by Facebook, e-mail, doctor appointments and more.

This interview asserts that workers get distracted from their tasks an average of every three minutes.

In fact, you’re probably reading this article as an interruption from something else. And if you clicked on the article above, that counts as another distraction/interruption.

Multitasking, the art of doing as many things as possible at once, is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s great that we can be so very expeditious when it comes to switching tasks. But we should also be expeditious at completing the tasks we’ve started.

So as you finish reading this article and get back to whatever you were doing before, do your best complete that task expeditiously.

Who knows? Maybe by focusing your attention on one thing at one time, you’ll have more time left at the end of the day to relax and do things that really matter.