The trouble with texting

- I want to tackle a challenging subject,…perhaps even a controversial subject when it comes…to time management.…I ask for your patience as you and I explore this together.…The topic is text messaging.…Because people are so comfortable with text messaging…in a personal context, they may have the tendency…to carry text messaging into the professional context,…into business.…When they do this, it creates all sorts of problems.…

One of the biggest problems is that people typically keep…their text message app open, meaning they've set it up…to notify them at any time.…If you're familiar with my work…on the myth of multi-tasking,…you'll know that if you leave yourself open to switches…in attention like this, it's going to chew up your…productivity very, very quickly.…Constantly jumping from one thing to another…is switch-tasking,…and it's highly counterproductive.…This isn't to say that text messaging doesn't have value,…it just needs to be used in an appropriate manner…that doesn't perpetuate switch-tasking.…

So, what is an appropriate way to use text messages…