Greetings Fabulous Mothers,
A comedy of multitasking events
led me to writing this blog and made me research a little about this topic and
as usual share the story and the research, with you.
It was a typical Saturday
around lunch time. I was making some noodle soup for my daughter. I
made the broth with some celery, tomatoes, onions, garlic powder and organic
chicken legs. The broth was boiling and the delicious aroma filled the air.
I have an open kitchen, and my
laptop is always running on my desk which is adjacent to my kitchen counter
top. While the broth was boiling, I decided to pull out the leadership course
that I was taking. I opened the PDF to page 19 and started reading. Face book
was on, gmail instant message was on as
well.
I got a phone call, I glanced
at my caller ID it was from my cousin in Pennsylvania. I could not miss that,
so I put on my headphones connected to my land line and we embarked on our
normal bonding conversations.
While we were on the phone, I was also reading
this course which was open. I then got a
text from an excited weight release client, “Yippee I lost 5 pounds this week!” to which I replied “ ek
chin hai” which means wait a minute in my language and I replied to my cousin
on the phone “ Yipeeee..I am so excited
for you and remember it takes four weeks for you to notice your body changing…..”
I heard a perplexed silence on the
phone, the text reply “????”, obviously
she is American.
I quickly rectified the
situation without even thinking that I might be doing too much, because
somewhere I remembered an exercise blog, or Youtube video saying “do
not just talk on the phone, you are wasting your time. Do some leg lifts
or squats.” So yes, guess what I was
doing now while I was texting, reading, cooking, talking on the phone - I was also doing some leg lifts!
I then had the audacity to remember that I had to
get my notepad from my office ( in case I got bombarded by ideas!). The moment of truth struck me like a lightening-I saw myself in the
office mirror! Notepad in one hand, cell phone in the other, head phones on and doing leg lifts!!!
The delicious aroma of the
broth quickly deteriorated into a burnt smell wafting in the house. My daughter
ran into the house from the backdoor after playing with her dog, a pug named Momo, “ I am hungry and my lunch smells burnt, what are you doing
mamma?”
I took some deep breaths. I
told my cousin I will have to catch up later when I make time to nourish our
bond further. I turned off the stove and made my daughter some peanut
butter and jelly sandwichs. I went to turn off the computer and I noticed that I
was in page 26. How was that even possible? I cannot remember reading those five pages, leave alone
consuming any information.
A satori moment , this was! There was so much “doing” going on, I had to check where my “being” was.
Mothers, we are not jugglers!
This type of juggling act is really giving the whole world a very stressful
energy. We are doing too much, trying to succeed, trying to achieve so many
things in the world that we forget to connect with the source, we forget to be
ourselves, we forget to be in touch with the wisdom within and most importantly
we forget who we are.
"People can't multitask
very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves,"
said neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "The brain is very good at
deluding itself." From this article:
When we multitask, I believe
that all the tasks do not get the attention it deserves and each one gets
diluted results.
So today, forget about
being superwoman….I invite you to do one thing at a time if possible and do it
100%. This will help you become present and fully aware of the moment. You can
live each moment with concentrated awareness bound to bring meditation in each
moment, enjoying the beauty of each occasion, each task at hand, making each
moment as joyful as you can.
Until tomorrow beautiful
Mothers, Enjoy your day!
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Oh I agree with you on Multi-tasking. I have never been good at it - and it is assumed that it is a "woman's" virtue...I always thought well, in that sense, I am not much of a "woman". When I am doing something, I always feel the need to fully engage with whatever I am doing, otherwise I know I just cannot do that task...atleast the way I would like it done. Having said that - I think I do do "unconscious" multi-tasking - which is even worse I guess. Like I'd be playing or doing something with my daughter but my mind will be totally occupied with a work related issue. In a way, I guess I am allowing myself to be "not so good" at doing whatever I am doing with my daughter by allowing my mind to be engaged in some other task. Having said that, I think multitasking is a useful skill to develop, but we need to know when to multitask and which tasks we can lump together. Leg lifting while talking on the phone - sounds good to me. Thanks Ads for this..
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