In today’s episode, we dive into a topic that often comes up with my coaching clients: multitasking.
You’re likely multitasking right now as you listen, and that’s perfectly okay!
We’ll explore how multitasking can fit into a slow-living lifestyle, especially when it comes to those everyday tasks on autopilot, and when it might be time to focus on being fully present.
In this episode we cover:
- When Multitasking Works: Discover how multitasking can be a helpful tool for completing routine tasks without much thought, allowing you to get more done.
- Being Present for New Experiences and Family Time: Learn why focusing on one thing at a time is essential when you’re trying something new or spending quality time with loved ones.
- What Is Context Switching? Understand how switching between tasks can affect your focus and productivity, and what it means for your day-to-day.
- Multitasking with a Slow Living Mindset: Find practical tips for incorporating multitasking without losing the calm and intention that slow living brings.
Tune in for a balanced approach to multitasking that can help you stay productive while still embracing a mindful, slow-living lifestyle.
Are you a remote worker? This article shares a study about how remote workers are multitasking and what they are doing during the day. Read the article HERE!
Sometimes people tease me and say, “but Steph — all you do is write and teach and speak about Slow Living but you DO SO MUCH!!”
Yes.
Slow Living isn’t about lazing around the house doing nothing.
Simply
Look
Only
Within
and asking yourself: “what is that I truly WANT? Am I doing things that FULFILL me and make me feel COMPLETE?”
And then making a plan to get the things you want out of life, in a slow, steady, and sustainable way.
This is it.
This is the life you are living.
If you aren’t passionately in love with it, CHANGE IT.
I tell you how, in the new book.
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Multi-tasking for ADHD people is a positive and negative habit. The positive is that it allows us to do a mind-less task (loading the diswasher or washing machine) while listening to an audio book, talk on the phone with a friend or listen to music. The negative of multi-tasking is that the more mindful thinking both tasks require I cannot do it. Which then means both tasks actually take longer to complete than if I just focused on one at a time.
There is also a school of thought that states the type of multi-tasking you are talking about is not really multi-tasking at all because one of those tasks are on auto-pilot, you literally do not need to use the brain muscle as much to complete the task.
If someone told me I needed to take notes from a podcast while eating my meal, I couldn’t do it. It would take me an hour to write notes for a 15min podcast because I would need to pause the audio, write, then play it again while taking a fast bite of my food so I could chew it while actively listening to the information.
So my question is: even when the task is auto-pilot, are we really multi-tasking?! Do we really absorb what we are watching or listening to when we are doing another activity at the same time?!
Thoughts from the mind of an ADHD brain – and yes – there were bits of this podcast I did not fully absorb because I was emptying my dishwasher, just to experiment and see how much I would really be able to absorb. It appears I need to relisten to the podcast, there were important bullet points I missed! LOL