Here we are in the middle of December, the holiday season, and the end of a semester (for education-related people). The peak of multi-tasking season! I am on hold with my mail-order pharmacy, reading and writing emails and recently finished submitting grades for two courses. Early this morning I was stretching, talking on the phone and hanging decorations on the Christmas tree.
How, one might ask, can we find peace when multi-tasking? I don’t know! More and more people are saying that multi-tasking leads to getting nothing done. Or at least getting nothing done well. They say we are better off focusing on one thing at a time and doing a good job.
There’s something about diabetes – the thinking person’s disease (quote stolen from a diabetes camp t-shirt) – that requires multi-tasking. Oh yea, the fact that we think about it 24/7! But when we get in the groove (and it is possible to get in a groove) there are moments of peace, when we can get other things done. And enjoy ourselves. So my goal for this crazy, busy season is to find peaceful moments and enjoy myself.
By the way, I have found that music helps. But does listening to music and doing a project count as multi-tasking? Oh well.