Have you ever called someone and while you waited for them to answer, you forgot who in the heck you were calling? Either you pull the cell phone from your ear to check for a name and familiar number or you just hope you'll quickly recognize the voice. Just doesn't sound right when they say hello and your response is, "well, hello to you to my friend, relative or business associate..." The problem isn't your mememory. The culprit is MULTI-TASKING (cue the thunder sound effect)!!!
Driving while taking an important call, cooking while changing the sheets, texting while performing heart surgery (I know that last one is a stretch)... you know where I'm coming from. We could die if we don't slow down (cue the thunder sound effect again)!!!! Multi-tasking is robbing us of precious moments of calm, clarity and total concentration. That's why your keys are in the refridgerator and there's a half-eaten tuna sandwich in your purse.
I'm guilty of quietly tapping on my computer keys w hile listening to a particularly long monologue on the phone. I confess to staring into the eyes of a co-worker, pretending to listen, while making a grocery list in my head. Its gotta stop. Besides venturing across the lane line a bit while multi-tasking behind the wheel, the biggest danger lies in what we miss. Sometimes a story about what happened at school, at work or the doctor's office may not seem important, but when multi-tasking prevents us from giving people our undivided attention, it damages what we care about the most.
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