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To Do: Un-Multitask
Aug. 2nd, 2004 09:25 amAccording to a news article I read this morning, multitasking is now a dirty word. Apparently you can over tax your brain by trying to do too much at once. So the new mantras are "One thing at a time" and "Put off for tomorrow what you can from today". The article also says that we need downtime, real downtime. We also need to be creative in some way (any way) to reset the brain and allow for real brain rest.
While I have typed the previous paragraph in fits and starts, I have fed Ariel breakfast, changed Caroline's diper and gave her a bottle, fixed Ariel's lunch and brewed myself coffee. During all this I listened to Morning Edition on NPR (Support your local public radio station) and heard a number of interesting things. After Ariel is off to camp and Peter wakes up (He got up with the baby at 3 am this morning and took care of her until she went back to sleep), I plan to go to the grocery story and pick up a few items I need for dinner and this weeks lunches. After putting up the groceries, I plan to go to the gym and workout. While I am elipical training, I will watch CNN on the TVs above my head. My afternoon is Caroline's needs and a doll I am working on that sort of took a wrong turn yesterday and I have to figure out how to fix it or scrap most of it and build another pattern.
Multitasking seems to me like breathing. It is something I have done for so long as a stage manager or a puppeteer or a book editor or a Mommy. I don't know if I can stop doing it. I do know there are times that I will focus (as I call it) totally on one thing or project and let all else pile up until I am done. Once done, I start to try to deal with more than one thing at a time again. Next thing is to get Ariel to camp today.
While I have typed the previous paragraph in fits and starts, I have fed Ariel breakfast, changed Caroline's diper and gave her a bottle, fixed Ariel's lunch and brewed myself coffee. During all this I listened to Morning Edition on NPR (Support your local public radio station) and heard a number of interesting things. After Ariel is off to camp and Peter wakes up (He got up with the baby at 3 am this morning and took care of her until she went back to sleep), I plan to go to the grocery story and pick up a few items I need for dinner and this weeks lunches. After putting up the groceries, I plan to go to the gym and workout. While I am elipical training, I will watch CNN on the TVs above my head. My afternoon is Caroline's needs and a doll I am working on that sort of took a wrong turn yesterday and I have to figure out how to fix it or scrap most of it and build another pattern.
Multitasking seems to me like breathing. It is something I have done for so long as a stage manager or a puppeteer or a book editor or a Mommy. I don't know if I can stop doing it. I do know there are times that I will focus (as I call it) totally on one thing or project and let all else pile up until I am done. Once done, I start to try to deal with more than one thing at a time again. Next thing is to get Ariel to camp today.
