Experts break down how time blocking can help you create a sustainable schedule and tackle your to-do list.

If you go to work and feel like you’re constantly chipping away at a never-ending list of tasks, this hack is for you.

You might think that multitasking is necessary to get everything done, but research continuously shows that juggling multiple to-dos at once is a fool’s errand. It stresses us out, causes our heart rate to spike and increases our blood pressure. Even worse: When we multitask, it takes us longer to finish our work and we make more errors.

Bottom line: When we try to do too many things at once, a concept also called task switching, our brains and bodies burn through a ton of energy.

Say you stop working on a report to answer an email. When you open the report back up, you waste energy remembering where you left off and getting back into a groove, Anne Welsh, a clinical psychologist and executive coach based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Task switching depletes your executive functioning, which is necessary for making decisions, planning and focusing, Welsh said.

“If you start your work day with a ‘we’ll see what happens’ attitude, you’ll likely get pulled in too many directions, feel overwhelmed, and be disappointed with your productivity come five o’clock,” noted Billy Roberts, the founder and clinical director of Focused Mind ADHD Counselling in Columbus, Ohio.

One solution to this problem regularly recommended by therapists who specialise in ADHD and productivity is........

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