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Multi-tasking is the order of the day, but can you really pay attention to five things at once? With cell phones, pagers and PDAs, we can stay connected all the time, but we may feel that we are pulled in too many directions and pushed too hard to find time to think.
Giving priority to what matters most may take time and energy, but it could end up helping us take back control of our lives. Dr. Ned Hallowell knows how to help us cope with being Crazy Busy.
Guest: Edward (Ned) Hallowell, MD, is a child and adult psychiatrist and founder of The Hallowell Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts. His book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap – Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life shows us all how to survive in an ultra-competitive, attention deficit society- and remain sane. His Web site is www.crazybusylife.com
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I hope he will address the issue of distraction while doing one thing (driving) and talking on a c-phone. The same issue can be observed at the grocery store of folks talking on the phone and paying little/no attention to where their cart is or other traffic in the aisle. I am convinced that c-phones and driving are incompatible!
People think they multi task but...I believe our mind is like a CPU on a computer. It moves data in and out incredibly fast, but only one instruction at a time can be executed, i.e. we do not parallel process.
What does work for me is to do a mental (listen to the radio) and physical (exercise) task at the same time.
I have been crazybusy at times in my prior job, and so has my wife. Unfortunately, the only way we were able to regain control of our time was to retire, which we did. We were fortunate to be retirement age when our workloads went over the safety/health limit. I realize most people will not be able to use this option, but if available, it is effective. Some people in our former workplaces literally only got 2-3 hrs of sleep each night, and it showed in their health and safety.