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Brain Cycles

posted on July 13, 2009

I’m very good at multitasking and always have been. But, have you ever had one thing decide that it is going to take control in your mind and not really let anything else get in there? That is exactly what I have felt like for the last couple of months and it is only getting worse over the past couple of weeks. I’m eager to have it pass so that I can push forward with everything else that needs some brain cycles.

Had a great weekend even if I did spend almost all day Saturday on the computer working. I took a break to dive into the neighbors pool and clear the head which was a magical couple of minutes. You can see in this photo that Dylan really enjoyed it as well.

Dylan Enjoying the Pool

Yesterday was spent up in New Hampshire spending time with family. It was great to hear some family stories from my Uncle Paul that I had never heard and he and I talked about capturing a lot of the memories in some fashion. He hit a soft spot with me in that since it is something important to me. Yup, another project to work on. Not what I needed at the moment, but again passion drives me and that is something I’m passionate about.

Emily is heading to camp later this week and Dylan is away all next week. Crazy how fast time flies.

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  • Andy Tinkham

    I’d like to hear what you come up with for capturing those memories. I’ve been working on it for my family as time allows, but so far it’s been taking a scanner, camera, and voice recorder back with me for the annual trip in August (which I’ll be doing again this year), and using Skype and WireTap Studio to record phone calls with my grandmother while we talk through questions from the book “To Our Childrens Children” by Bob Greene.

  • http://www.chipgriffin.com Chip Griffin

    I used to proudly proclaim my ability to multitask and disparaged any activity — like going to the movies — that hindered or precluded the possibility of doing two (or more) things at once.

    I have become increasingly convinced, however, that I have merely been deluding myself. The truth is that when you do two things at once, they are both done less well than they would be otherwise. Comprehension of visual or textual content is lessened when you try to watch and read at the same time. Checking your iPhone/Blackberry in a meeting can lead to missing or misunderstanding email or doing the same with the conversation in the room.

    I participate in conference calls regularly where participants clearly aren’t paying attention and are left asking “can you repeat that” when they are called upon to speak.

    Even non-simultaneous multitasking — where I switch from one company or project to the next constantly — causes similar issues. It takes longer for them to manifest themselves and it isn’t always quite as obvious, but I clearly have issues with going in too many different directions at once.

    I’m trying to combat it by shedding projects/tasks where possible, more carefully assessing what new things I take on, and setting aside time to focus exclusively on specific objectives.

    I can’t say I have been entirely successful at it because I hate to leave good ideas on the side of the road, but one of my goals is to do a better job of walking away from what may be the next great thing if it doesn’t fit in with my overall plans.