Yes, I want my life back.
So after the NO.RE.LO.P. experiment aimed to dramatically reduce my sick addiction to emails, today I have decided the next move: stop multi-tasking. I'm learning every day along my journey towards a *normal* life. I've realized the multi-tasking behaviour is a big - huge - massive obstacle to my desired lifestyle.
Why?
Yesterday I took 15 good minutes to observe my boss, trying to understand what I should retain from doing in order not to be like her.
Well, in this lapse of time she managed to do the following:
Then a phone call interrupted my observation, I picked it up and started a conversation (with earphones on), I started typing on my keyboard, I replied to an email. Wait a second... I was doing exactly the same, how miserable!
And even worse... I always do that:
Learning: you can not enjoy anything that you're doing if you do more than one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is an enemy of downshifting. Mono-tasking is a new rule in my (one day normal) life.
Erm... football + beer is still ok, isn't it?
So after the NO.RE.LO.P. experiment aimed to dramatically reduce my sick addiction to emails, today I have decided the next move: stop multi-tasking. I'm learning every day along my journey towards a *normal* life. I've realized the multi-tasking behaviour is a big - huge - massive obstacle to my desired lifestyle.
Why?
Yesterday I took 15 good minutes to observe my boss, trying to understand what I should retain from doing in order not to be like her.
Well, in this lapse of time she managed to do the following:
- talk on the Phone for all the 15 minutes (while wearing a horrible bluetooth earphone);
- keep on Typing on the keyboard at the same speed she normally does when she's not on the phone:
- go to the loo and come back... still in the same phone Conversation. Yeach!
- send an incomprehensible email to me;
- write some instructions on a post-it and give it to the PA;
- check the blackberry every couple of minutes.
Then a phone call interrupted my observation, I picked it up and started a conversation (with earphones on), I started typing on my keyboard, I replied to an email. Wait a second... I was doing exactly the same, how miserable!
And even worse... I always do that:
- read email + have breakfast
- brush teeth + pee
- talk on the phone + send email
- lunch at desk + keep on working
- eat dinner + book flight
- etc.. etc...
Learning: you can not enjoy anything that you're doing if you do more than one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is an enemy of downshifting. Mono-tasking is a new rule in my (one day normal) life.
Erm... football + beer is still ok, isn't it?
This post first appeared on DownshiftingNow - The Marvels Of A Normal Life, please read the originial post: here
