I have been working this year on finding balance in my life. In an effort to find that balance, I have decided to almost completely stop multitasking.
- No more cooking dinner and blogging at the same time.
- No more paying bills while I am supposed to be helping the kids with schoolwork.
- No more having my phone downstairs during the day.
- No more cleaning during school hours.
Now I didn’t just stop doing those things all together.
I still have to cook, I still enjoy blogging, I still have to pay the bills and help the kids with schoolwork.
I just focus on the task at hand and each task has been taking me less time. Instead of taking an hour to pay bills while helping kids with schoolwork at the table. We do schoolwork for 20 minutes and I can have the weekly bills paid in 20 minutes. That saves me 20 minutes, or 1/3 of my time. Instead of cooking dinner and blogging at the same time, where cooking dinner would take 1 and a half hours and blogging would take 2 hours. I can cook dinner in 30 minutes to 1 hour and blogging only takes about 45 minutes. That saves me anywhere from 30-45 minutes together. Also my blog posts get more attention and I can pay more attention to details then. And… our dinner doesn’t burn.
While often we think that multitasking saves time, I have found in many areas of my life that is actually costs me time as well as costs me giving the task my best.
I have recently found time to get my house as clean as I like it and I have organized my sewing supplies and set up a sewing area and I have even done quite a bit of mending and hemming of my pants for the cooler months.
Do you multitask?
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