The biggest destructive force in modern day families is this lack of care and attention. We often just don’t want to take the time to listen because it takes too much time. And, when it comes to relationships, multitasking can be absolutely disastrous. Unfortunately, most people never verbalize the negative downside of multitasking, but the consequences are very real. We may end up finishing more tasks, but with poorer output and frazzled nerves!
By choosing this, we sacrifice quality for quantity, which then leads to more errors. The problem is that some of us forgot to do the math! By doing two things at once, rather than doing one thing at a time, we divert 30% of our attention from the first task. Focusing On One Thing at a Time vs Multitasking For most people, it finally results in a breakdown if that someone doesn’t stop or slow down. In the end, this lifestyle creates more-and-more stress, exhaustion, and anxiety. This is a philosophy of the do-more-and-do-more-with-less-and-less group. In some cases, it just means you are juggling more things badly! It’s better that way, right? Being highly active, doesn’t mean you’re highly productive or efficient. The standard blueprint or strategy of the world’s system these days is to just do two, three, or four more things-all at once of course. Since we have embraced that “time is money,” we have also come to believe that if a person’s not busy, then they are taking up valuable space! The dramatic and scary escalation of busyness has given us the chronic mindset that there’s too much to do in a short time. But why do we consider it so bizarre that when a 48-year-old broker drops dead on the exchange floor that his colleagues keep working around the lifeless body receiving CPR?! They are required to run around doing five things at once. In certain jobs, it’s considered necessary to be busy, busy, busy! Just let’s look at the clerks on the Stock Exchange floor. The expectation of multitasking has become systemic through modern society, and we’ve all been caught up in it. (Well, for we Brits, it is tea, not coffee.) I know I’m trying to make light of this situation, but actually it’s not a laughing matter. We can just look around us and see others talking on the phone while having lunch, reading text messages while feeding the kids, and even drinking coffee while driving. Even more preposterous are those who say, “Make this priority NUMBER ONE! And oh….by the way, while you’re doing that, can you do this too?” Whether this demand on us comes from our boss, our family, our friends, or the current circumstances, it seems like everything needs to be done at warp speed. There are even people who say, “That needed to be done yesterday.” We live in a microwave culture in which everything is expected to be available the instant someone thinks about it. In this one, I am emphasizing that we need to only focus on the one thing.
In my last blog posts I spoke about the unhealthy focus of self-examination and the most important thing.
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