Hi, I am Adelien from Blessed Learners. I am so happy to be a contributor in Multitaskinmom. I feel that the name of this blog is very suitable for me too. Multitasking is one feature that many people have, especially moms. There are so many things that have to be accomplished at a very limited time. That is the main reason above everything. It has been very hard for me to limit my focus and concentration toward just one thing to do. While I am typing a post, I might do some things like answer phone calls, serve the customer, listening to the news, welcoming my son coming home, etc. I cannot sit at once and finish one posting at one time. It rarely happens as the environment is unavoidable. I am living with so many people at home and I am a working at home and homeschooling mom. The life is very busy.
Let see some positive thing to be a multi-tasking person.
- I can finish many things at the same time.
- It is a part of a habit, so I am not shocked when I am forced to do something at the same time with other things.
- I train my brain to get used to or to adapt to many situation at the same time.
- It save the time and money as I can handle some activities at the same time without help from others.
- I am forced to work faster to get all the things finish at the same time.
- I am used to organize my mind, skills, physical movement, and social matters altogether at once.
The bottom lines of being a multi-tasking person are
- There is greater risk to get blank and forget what to do.
- I might have been easily getting stressful to realize what I have been doing
- Loosing concentration will make things I have been doing in chaos.
- The enjoyment of doing something cannot be maximum for being interrupted.
- It might make other people around me getting confused watching me going around.
- It is very hard to work by schedule as I feel weird doing one thing at a time. I am not patient to wait.
As you can see there, being a multi tasking person is not always good and sometimes we need to avoid it. However, it is not as easy as we might think. Multi tasking might be a lifestyle or habit that we have to use a lot of effort using it on the right time and place.
Here are some things I have tried, but not always successfully:
- Writing a “to do list” and give it a thick each time you finish one. It will show us how many points we have not finished yet so that we are not going to miss things to do.
- Setting up timer for how long I need to concentrate on just one point to finish without any other distraction.
- Think about the priorities of the works I am doing. I often work without priorities, I confess. The result is sometimes things that should be done first are not finished, while the other that are not so urgent are finished first.
- Have a break in the middle of the multi tasking work will give time to take a breath and renew the energy. This is a very hard time sometimes to give pause to something we are doing. However, we need to do this to avoid worse chaos and stress.
- I used to think that the works I do at the same time as “stations”. So it is like a game that needs to get finish one after another. Therefore, it is like a putting eggs on different baskets and I need to fill them in.
As multitasking job will make me easier to get stress, I need to know what I need to do when I get stressful.
