We live in a fast-paced multi-tasking age which has made it possible to get immediate gratification 24/7: e-mail, banking, mail orders and of course, work. Children are connected to their cell phone and ipod, distracted during the school day or while crossing busy streets. Did you ever go on a dinner date with someone who was busy accessing email and had to text him /her to get their attention? Everyone is afraid to miss out. Oh and please excuse me if my writing is a bit diffuse as I have to answer the phone while I collect my thoughts.
Interesting, immediate gratification has transferred over to the spiritual realm which has traditionally relied on patience. We grow impatient with our spiritual status. We grow impatient with meditation – “where is my Divine guidance- I want it now?” We bargain with God: “If you do this for me, I will…” Or “Because I helped out a poor soul, now I am ready and waiting for my blessing.” It seems like we are hungrier and devouring more – all the time. We have grown overweight and our children are following in our bigger shadows. We even multi-task our fun, every minute accounted. We are spinning out of control, experiencing more dissatisfaction.
We find it hard just to be with ourselves on a simple, natural level. Often we sit silently at the dinner table unable to communicate or else deteriorate into a shouting match of opposing wills when the TV is shut. Are we distracting ourselves with more, numbing the pain, because deep down we feel inadequate, unloved for who we really are on a simple level?
Efficiency experts have demonstrated that there is great momentum in slowing down and increased productivity in rest. You can actually save time by single-tasking. Pleasurable activities serve a higher purpose, so live in the present and let life embrace you.
Here are some strategies which promote single-tasking:
* Do what you love to do even a few minutes a day. Hobbies hold clues to life and career changes. You lose track of time when you are immersed in what you love doing.
* Experience the state of flow because you are focused on the rhythm of what you are doing (as opposed to breaking down the move into its intellectual parts) like a golfer connecting with the ball or a couple dancing.
* Be patient with your goals. Don’t give yourself an artificial deadline. A deadline is a flat line.
* Stir your coffee backwards to be more conscious of what you are doing. You are breaking a mindless routine to experience it with new focus.
* Don’t wear your wrist watch for the weekend – feel the power of subjective time.
* Prioritize your activities – they don’t all have to be done at once. Delay those that can wait.
* When at work, just do your work and don’t bring your family worries to work with you.
Great article! Especially for those of us who are continually and habitually (and sometimes successfully) trying to multi-task! Thanks. http://www.liveinfreedomtoday.com
Today's life is really a fast lane. I mean things get done so quick due to emails, and other latest tech available today. Multitasking has become the norm.
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At the mobile analytics conference I attended last month we actually talked about how multi-tasking can have a negative effect on your business. Not that's it bad to do multiple things at once; it is bad to not be able to focus on one thing at a time. Most people (myself included) can only spend about 20 minutes doing the same task until they switch to something different. Because multitasking is part of our society that also means that focusing on one thing at a time is a skill that not many people posses.
I've been using Nikola Tesla's "3,6,9" principle lately. It breaks your day into 3 hour blocks and allows you to devote each block to one particular activity instead of doing multiple things at once. It's really opened up my free time! Depending on my work load I may break up the day into 6 blocks of 1 to 1.5 hours. Either way, I am getting alot more done and it feels fantastic.
reading this article, I noticed that with the kind of society or generation we have today, seems like people tend to do multi-tasking because there are lots of things to do. and people are so busy like we almost forgot to spend sometime with our family or even for ourselves. we even forgot to spend at least a minute talking to God. thinking, this maybe also because of the fast innovation of the technology we have. hmmm. we didn't even think that we missed a lot doing multi-tasking.
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