CAREER


Multi-tasking… but what about just being?


I used to love multi-tasking. Especially as a busy working mother, I would do it all at once: cook, tidy up while talking on the phone, put the laundry out to dry while my computer was updating and I was gesturing at my kids to keep their voice down while playing on the PlayStation. I would run be- tween my desk and the kitchen, listening to an important we- binar while the TV was on silent and I was preparing a light dinner or answering emails or both! It gives me a headache to even think about it now!


Do you get the feeling from time to time that there are not enough hours in the day, that you are constantly on a treadmill


and chasing after the next task, or rather five or 10 of them? Often fretting in the evening, or even at night, that you have not completed them? Do you feel that you are never in the present, never in the moment, as your mind races constantly, into the fu- ture and then back to the past… but you are actually never here, in the present moment?


Multi-tasking is a trap that does not make us more productive, it actually makes us frantic, less focused and eventually exhausted. Even worse, it makes us irritable and impatient with our loved ones as our attention gets dispersed between talking to them and thinking about that last email or phone call from work.


26 FOCUS The Magazine March/April 2019


www.focus-info.org


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