Holy Muti-tasking Batman!!

These days, multi-tasking isn't just a skill that is handy to have, it's essential! Unfortunately the world moves fast these days and we seem to have a zillion things on our plates.

I think I have always been good at it....but as every mother knows, you never really perfect it till you have kids. Before that time you really don't have a reason to put on makeup and play Chutes and Ladders at the same time. Or nurse a baby while checking email. I think moms, more than anyone else, are pulled in many directions at once.

For the most part, I think multi-tasking is a good thing, as long as you can still give a decent amount of attention to both things. There is bad multi-tasking though...like driving and texting. That is a HUGE no no.

My husband and I joined a gym almost a month ago. We both take mp3 players to listen to or at least headphones/ear buds so we can watch TV while jogging or using the Elliptical. Works well and makes the time seem to go by faster. I've seen some people reading magazines or newspapers while exercising and I decided to grab a magazine one day to try it. I had trouble with it....it was just too hard to focus on the words while moving around so much. Then the other day, a woman got on a stepper machine next to mine. I couldn't help but notice what she was doing. She got her machine going and set up the way she wanted, then she started up her ipod. THEN she turned on her Kindle. At first I was kinda impressed...exercise, music and a story all at once?? But then I thought some more and wondered how on earth she could possibly give proper attention to the story she was reading. Me personally, I cannot listen to music when I read or write...I know others can though. But tack on the exercise too....I don't know...seemed like a lot going on at once.

I think sometimes we do need to step back and slow down. Enjoy just one activity at a time. Life flashes by so fast...hate to look back and just remember a blur of things.