Can you commit to doing a single task every morning, just after you arrive in the office?
Five years later, I found myself travelling around the world alone, with a single task left to complete on my bucket list.
Or do I go with a single device that meets all my needs, but is not optimized for a single task?
No longer do single-task workers toil away at single-task machines.
We can choose between dedicated devices that are specialized for a single task such as book reading or music, or we can buy a device that does it all.
Concentration is improved when people's senses are aroused, says Dr Linnell, but if this becomes excessive it seems to have the opposite effect and reduces the ability to focus on a single task.
Firms will install vast storage boxes for holding data and single-task servers running crucial applications that require almost no maintenance.
What's the single most important task Congress must complete before adjourning for the holidays?
Before any of this comes to fruition the single most important task the president faces: Stopping the country going over the fiscal cliff.
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Many entrepreneurs will tell you that writing the one-page executive summary is the single most painful task they are required to do (at least early on).
With both the learning curve and team-bonding risks out of the way, such a team can focus single-mindedly on the task at hand.
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The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.
However, this leaves the MPAA with the arduous task of prosecuting single users one at a time, a prospect that is both expensive and, as some of the musicians complaining about Napster are finding, bad for public relations.
Along with this comes a second task: to preserve the single market, by far the EU's greatest achievement of recent years.
The engineer and grandmother who climbed the ranks of the defense establishment while a single parent was charged with the difficult task of helping BAE make the transition from a supplier of heavy weaponry used in wartime, like the 33-ton Bradley Fighting Vehicle, into a more diversified provider of equipment, electronics and software.
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Ngog had the arduous task of leading the Liverpool line almost single-handedly and, while he worked tirelessly, he failed to make the most of a rare chance which came his way.
But defence barrister, Julian Goose QC, said it was not true Mr Piper's company had been engaged as the "single point of contact" for such a wide-ranging task.
To find out just how well today's robots work, we tested six of the coolest personal bots currently available for sale in the U.S. ( Click here to see them.) They ranged in price from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and fell into two broad categories: single-purpose robots, which are designed to accomplish a specific task, and entertainment robots, which exist for pleasure and play.
For that, they will (mostly) thank the prime minister, as well as David Mundell - and Michael Moore, the Liberal Democrat Scottish Secretary who has perhaps enhanced his status in the UK government by sticking to the task which he set himself back in January: to deliver a single question referendum.
Ministers are now embarking on the daunting task of simplifying a tangle of welfare entitlements and tax breaks into a single universal benefit.
On the face of it, though, relying on a single source limits the sorts of wave that can be produced, and therefore the types of task they can perform.
Armstrong's task was to generate enough public sympathy to allow him to salvage a once-glittering career that he single-handedly ruined.
Just as there's no single pen that's perfect for every job, there's no stylus that best suits every app and task at hand.
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