How’s your focus been lately? I have always been a multi-tasker-I don’t even want to admit some of the times I’ve done more than one thing when I had no business doing it. I will say I haven’t put make up on while driving, but pretty much nothing else is off limits.
Reading while watching TV.
Brushing my teeth, while wiping out the bathroom sink
Carrying recyclables and a load of laundry downstairs while stopping to tend to the wood furnace on my way up...maybe taking an extra trip up and down for exercise while I’m at it.
When I’m lazy, I do dishes during the commercials-yes, I admit it!
We all fold clothes while cooking supper, right? Thought so!
Is it a woman thing? Because, I don’t see my husband doing much of it, unless you count reading in the bathroom.
Let’s not even go there.
However, I have discovered something of late.
My desire to accomplish more and more, faster and faster, has left me with an atrophied ability to focus, intently, on just one single thing at a time.
Especially things that needed deep concentration.
I wondered why all the reading I was doing for my classes wasn’t sticking in my brain that well.
Hello! Because I had trained that organ to think about this, that, and the other thing even if I wasn’t actually doing this that and the other thing.
I’m glad I figured this out-not only for the sake of my marks but also as a wake up call –how much of my life was I actually missing out on, because my mind was going a 100 mile per hour and my hands were trying to keep up?
Are you a multi-tasker or are you focused on one thing at a time.
Take my quiz found on the Personal Coaching page of http://www.turningpointchangestartshere.com/
Wishing you grace & peace
Susan
Reading while watching TV.
Brushing my teeth, while wiping out the bathroom sink
Carrying recyclables and a load of laundry downstairs while stopping to tend to the wood furnace on my way up...maybe taking an extra trip up and down for exercise while I’m at it.
When I’m lazy, I do dishes during the commercials-yes, I admit it!
We all fold clothes while cooking supper, right? Thought so!
Is it a woman thing? Because, I don’t see my husband doing much of it, unless you count reading in the bathroom.
Let’s not even go there.
However, I have discovered something of late.
My desire to accomplish more and more, faster and faster, has left me with an atrophied ability to focus, intently, on just one single thing at a time.
Especially things that needed deep concentration.
I wondered why all the reading I was doing for my classes wasn’t sticking in my brain that well.
Hello! Because I had trained that organ to think about this, that, and the other thing even if I wasn’t actually doing this that and the other thing.
I’m glad I figured this out-not only for the sake of my marks but also as a wake up call –how much of my life was I actually missing out on, because my mind was going a 100 mile per hour and my hands were trying to keep up?
Are you a multi-tasker or are you focused on one thing at a time.
Take my quiz found on the Personal Coaching page of http://www.turningpointchangestartshere.com/
Wishing you grace & peace
Susan
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