Mindfulness Pocketbook: Little Exercises for a Calmer Life

Focusing Your Multi-Tasking

‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.’ – Albert Einstein

You probably know someone who is good at multi-tasking. But are they really doing several things at once? Look closely and you may see that what they're actually doing is rapid task switching: rather than doing several things at once, they are doing several things, one thing at a time, but in quick succession.

With this sort of focused multi-tasking the brain is like a hotel room: one person occupies it and then moves out. Then another person moves in to occupy it. They are not both there at the same time.

If, like many of ...