Speech on Importance of doing one thing at a time
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I am a confirmed list maker. Every day, my pen at the ready, I open my schedule book and detail those tasks that are most in need of being completed. Like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, I am always thinking of my schedule, how much I have to accomplish and how little time there is to do it. This frequently pushes me into multitasking overdrive.
You know what I mean: You wash dinner dishes while catching up with friends on the phone. You fold clothes and quiz your child on French nouns and verbs. You use drive time to resolve family disputes between offspring (they are, after all, a captive audience). You add items to your household shopping list while fielding client calls or boss demands. And each time you do double duty, you applaud yourself for your organizational skills.
Does this sound like your day? Even now, while you are reading this, is some part of your mind thinking of what you have to do later today, tonight, tomorrow? Is your brain buried under a mass of mental sticky notes, making it difficult to think clearly? Take the advice Sarah Ban Breathnach offers in Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy: “Today, we must start to recover our sanity. The way we do this is to concentrate slowly on completing one task at a time