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Fractions
Give 100 percent of yourself to everything you do. This is great advice, but in today’s multitasking world, the idea is virtually impossible. Furthermore, when and if you do manage to accomplish this feat, something, somewhere must suffer the consequences. You’re an employee, a colleague, a boss, a parent, a spouse, a friend, a sibling, a daughter, or a son. Yet, you are not these things singularly, you are all of these things and more, simultaneously. Out of necessity, you attempt to divide yourself, in fractions, accordingly. You devote a percentage of yourself and time to be a parent, to be an employee, to be a spouse, to be a friend. However, when you are through doing the math, what percentage is left to just be you?
Though you may not be able to literally devote 100 percent of yourself to something or someone, you can ensure that the percentage of attention you are able to provide is, at least temporarily, undivided. Multitasking is a talent honed through living and thriving through the density of life today. It is the skill of being able to efficiently and competently perform several tasks simultaneously. It is the ability to master instantly dividing your attention and focus, into fractions. Rather than focusing on one task and then another, it requires the spanning of the same amount of attention across a multitude of undertakings.
While performing this skill, it is not required to devote to each task, undivided attention. Multitasking becomes a habit that silently infuses itself into our daily routines. The result is that we multi-walk, we multi- talk, we multi-experience, we multi-live, we multi-moment. For the sake of simplification, let’s fraction the whole being into four main components: body, mind, heart, and soul. These parts are all naturally, inextricably connected. You cannot give 100 percent of one without tapping into another. Tasks as defined in this article are classified as everyday jobs, errands, duties, responsibilities. They require, for the most part, the mind and body. Moments, on the contrary, are more likely to use the heart and the soul.
Very few things in life keep our attention long enough to experience and absorb them. Many of us find it a necessity to multitask, but it is vital to our well-being that we give ourselves fully to the moments. To do so, we need to focus on the important distinctions between a task and a moment.
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