I certainly hope I'm not the only one who is finding, as the years tick by, that I'm losing more and more of my daily focus. It'd be funny if it wasn't so darn time-wasting!
I can start out in the kitchen, loading the dishwasher, look out the window, see some leaves and go out and rake...before the dishwasher is loaded! Or I can be carrying laundry to the bedroom, look in the mirror, as I pass the bathroom, and end up plucking my eyebrows...laundry now the furthest thing from my mind. Or changing the dog's water and stacking the water bowl over the food one - and then spending four hours looking for the mysteriously absent food bowl? And I've noticed too, If I'm working on the computer, I jump around from site to site and forget what I'm looking for when I get there.
I've become a big note writer...to myself. If I'm leaving the house, I have to list, in order, the places I intend to visit. If I don't make that list, chances are good that one of my stops will be passed up.
What is going on? I'm blaming it on keeping track of kids' and hubby's schedule for years and all the minutia I've held onto for so long. There's no room in my head for current stuff any more, like how to finish a task, without distraction.
This exercise in writing, I hope, helps me with my focus....trying to organize thoughts, come up with words...oh, wait a minute...those drapes need straightening.....
Over the years you learn the value of "being open to new ideas, opportunities as they appear" instead of having tunnel vision dedication to your current task. That concept, coupled with the long habit of never putting off until tomorrow what you can do today (as in right now), leads to interesting, family circus style, adventures throughout the day.
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