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Multi-tasking or single focus kind of person?

bcgal00 said:
Are you a multi-tasking kind of person or do you focus on one thing until it's complete, before moving on to another task?

I'm a mutli-tasker which can get me in trouble sometimes b/c I end up spending more time going from task to task than actually getting anything done....but when it works...it works well.

This morning it worked well.

I've not been feeling well and am frankly just sick of being sick LOL. I have things I want to do. So I decided to push myself a bit this morning, over-ride the sick feeling, kind of the "fake it til you make it" mentality. So I started multi-tasking. I feel good. I got a bunch of little things accomplished. in 1/2 hr I managed to:
  1. take stuff out of dryer, turned around and opened freezer, taking out meat for dinner to thaw
  2. turned right and grabbed 3 bins of scrap supplies and stacked them under a cupboard, so they are together. moved 3 boxes into garage for recycling, then grabbed laundry basket as I headed back thru the basement, grabbing coffee cup to bring up to refill in kitchen and grabbed a bag of pumpkin spice coffee from storage cupboard downstairs (overflow groceries go in here)
  3. after putting cup down, I put coffee in pantry, saw 2 bags of Taz's treats, opened the bags and dumped them into the big glass jar of treats (which keeps them fresher but I don't know why I do this, he's a dog, he doesn't care if they are fresh LOL)
  4. checked soup labels and made a note of which I'm low on, then cleaned coffee filter and make a fresh coffee
  5. put refilled coffee on stairway ledge and went down the hall to the closet to grab a hoodie and vest to go out dog walking soon, then grabbed 3 hoodies I don't wear anymore (don't ask about my weight this year...ugh) to put in bag for charity
  6. then sorted closet into his/her side (my side is much bigger btw, as it should be LOL), closed closet and saw Taz's toys on the floor. Grabbed them and headed to the LR
  7. put toys away in his bin, then took 2 bananas out of the bowl on LR table and took cookie tin out to put on kitchen counter as I want to make some GF banana muffins later today.
  8. started dishwasher and grabbed coffee off stairway ledge as I headed back downstairs.
I'm feeling super organized and productive right now :) It won't last long though, I'll soon be walking around, forgetting what I was going to do, and then forgetting about it.

What about you?
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On top of all that, you reminded me to go get my coffee from the kitchen! So you really did get a lot done this morning!
 
I used to be the BEST multi-tasker in the world! A former housemate and I used to watch tv, play Trivial Pursuit, knit, and eat pizza all at the same time. Unfortunately, those days are over. All the years of multi-tasking took it's toll and I can now only do one thing at a time. Kinda freaks me out. If I've been working in the garden all day long and you want to know what's for dinner? Ha! Open the fridge and make something yourself! (That's my favorite new saying.) I'm cooking dinner and you want to know if I can go do something else or bring you somewhere that wasn't on the calendar this morning? Nope.

It's sad, but true. Makes me feel like I'm getting older.
 
I used to be a multi-tasker, but nowadays I have to really concentrate to get anything done. I must be getting old. I even have to talk to myself sometimes or else I'll forget what I was doing. Just this morning, I was sending an email to my son and thought I should go check my phone for the name of the lady he was teaching. I got up walked toward the kitchen to get my phone, but by the time I got into the kitchen I couldn't remember what I went in there to get... lol It wasn't until I came back into my office that I remembered what I was going to get...uggh!
 
scrapsandsass said:
I'm not only a multi-tasker, I'm a scanner. I've recently discovered that has been my problem for a long time. :giggle I also suspect, after going through all of the diagnostic processes and education surrounding Kennedy's ADHD, that I also have it but it didn't impact me at school so much because I was so ahead of the rest of the class, my teachers would let me do my own thing a lot of the time. I have a very hard time focusing on only one thing at a time unless I'm super interested in it, and then I risk losing myself down a rabbit hole with it.
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me - totally.
 
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