Multitasking. Mindfulness. Switchtasking. Mindfulness. Background tasking. Mindfulness. Solotasking. Mindfulness.
To live each day to the fullest, accomplish your to-do list, be efficient and effective, and enjoy life – what is the answer? Luckily I’ve been guest posting over at Get Organised and have had the opportunity to really dig into this question.
From a time management strategy, is background tasking an acceptable alternative to multitasking?
Where does mindfulness fit into this equation?
Jump on over to Get Organised and check out my most recent post. Once there, I encourage you to leave a comment with your thoughts.
Wonderful blog, very informative. Background tasking allows us to accomplish more by saving time for us to relax at the end of the day. If we didn’t do the tasks that saved us time, it would not allow us a little extra time for our physical and mental state to just relax for awhile. This is so important, this the mind and body looks forward to. :)
Tami –
Thanks so much for your comment. Relaxing is important. I’m still on the fence about when I personally want to use background tasking and when I don’t. Right now, I’m leaning towards no background tasking with people . . . and it’s ok with “things”. For example, I sorted papers while part of the Final 4 yesterday.
Lisa
I try my best to multi task, but sometimes I’d rather just focus on one job at a time!
Sophie
I certainly agree with you when it comes to any job that requires some brain power – or when dealing with people. Single focus is best! I appreciate your comment.
Lisa
great post i have learnt to multi task well as i am a mum of 7 and have to 24/7 x
Lisa –
I appreciate your comment. When you say you multitask – are you background tasking or switchtasking?
Lisa
Multi-tasking doesn’t seem to work for me. So I do things one at a time.
I agree! Thanks for the comment.
Lisa