I am always amused by the proponents of “multi-tasking”, as a rational concept, who never stop to keep count of the multi-results they have or have not created in any given day, week or month. Yet they champion or worse deride others, who eschew the process.
What I have come to observe is that a great many of those advocates, have a deeper problem. They cannot say “no”. They feel guilty or less super-human, in rejecting others’ requests for their time, money or energy. Everything is a priority, and in reality, nothing is a priority.
To focus on one important result and get it done before moving onto the next, seems anathema to them (a self-esteem and a self-worth issue).
They have no realistic understanding of their available time for the volume of routine and exceptional results, not tasks that they have voluntarily signed upto. It is irrational logic dressed up as rational logic.
In reality, they are a willing “slave” to others’ demands, whose constant refrain to others who appear to have more discretionary time for other enjoyable but less serious activities is, “if you think I have time for that, you are crazy!” They are right.
They don’t have the time because the way that they have let others design their day, week or month routine and/or the way in which they are undertaking their work, home and social life, makes it an impossibility.
We have a choice: healthily selfishness or unhealthily selflessness. Who do you want to be seen as, known as, and quoted and cited as in the next 12 months?
