This should be a pop up on my computer
I have always touted how I was so good at multi-tasking. As a matter of fact I find I often cannot JUST do one thing at a time. And the few moments I do try to just do one I feel as if I cannot start anything unless something else isn’t going on… the radio & Facebook or the television at LEAST. And moments are often wasted while I choose, glance, get caught up in all the “background” noise I feel I need to begin my work.
So far this hasn’t really seemed a bad thing. I can actually keep up on many things all at once this way. My recorded tv show is perfect background entertainment when I’m updating the mailing list or doing a broadcast email which is tedious mind numbing brainless work. Listening to the radio during the day often makes me smile with my favorite songs and its amazing how I can hear a phone ring from across the house even when in the garage with my radio blasting. Checking emails often only takes 5-15 minutes of concentrated brain power, allowing almost constant monitoring of 6 emails, my blog comments & 2 Facebook pages!
But I’ve found a crazy byproduct of all this mass-efficiency. I lose things.
See what happens is I often don’t have time to sort & file some of my personal things. Or I set it down to follow up on something and it gets under other work (with even MORE work piled on top of that) and/or misfiled or set in a stack of “trying to get to” with other things and buried. Then when I go to look for it I have to turn my office or house upside down trying to find it. The absolute WORST part of this wacky cycle is often when I’m looking for something, (and I usually find it btw), I realize in the searching that something ELSE I thought was “right here” is now also missing.
Now I’m torn… do I keep searching for this missing item or get on with the task needed done now that I’ve got the missing piece. Usually I end up placing the found prize in my briefcase to “accomplish” later and keep up the search. And every time I tell myself I need a better organization system. That somehow if I had file drawers that opened easily (currently mine are so rusted they only open only with a twisty wrenching battle)… that I could stay up on filing and not have this “stack of crap” to go through every time this happens. That if I could JUST have a few focused days I’d be able to “get ahead” of all this “to do ” stack so this wouldn’t happen again.
Yet I think the real culprit is doing so much all at once is preventing me from finishing any of it. So I’ve decided to see if I cannot apply the focus of the Autistic to my dilemma. Take one thing and just about obsess about it until it is completely finished. Perhaps I’ll actually get more done this way.
I do need new file cabinets though.