Tonight was just like any other night at our house. I got home from work, went on a run, played with the girls and helped Rob with dinner. He usually works on dinner while I get my late-afternoon workout in. We were making Hulu Pizzas (an Unger household favorite from The Biggest Loser Cookbook). As always, I was also running around the house picking up, putting things away, changing diapers, etc. - you get the point. Now, before I go on, I'd like to preface this with the fact that I pride myself on my multi-tasking abilities. I have it on my resume, I talk about it in interviews and I do it daily. But tonight I had to ask myself, "Am I really that good at trying to do everything at once?"
I had to ask myself this tonight because I burned the pizza! I know this happens to everyone, but it's proof that, tonight, I wasn't a good multi-tasker. Then I got to thinking, "How often do I do this?" You know, where I think I have everything under control but end of burning the one thing that needed to get done. Tonight, I ended up wasting more time re-doing our dinner instead of making my hungry kids happy in the most efficient way. I haven't figured out the solution to my problem and I don't think I ever will. I will always have a million things to do and a short amount of time to do them. I think the biggest thing I have to take into consideration at home and work are my priorities. What is the most important thing on my list? Are my kids screaming because they are hungry? Then making dinner is the most important thing. Is my marketing department swamped with projects because I don't have enough employees to keep up with the work? Then I need to hire another graphic designer. I guess this is part of my New Year's Resoultion to effective time-management practices.
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day, right? What are your multi-tasking secrets? Let me know!
I had to ask myself this tonight because I burned the pizza! I know this happens to everyone, but it's proof that, tonight, I wasn't a good multi-tasker. Then I got to thinking, "How often do I do this?" You know, where I think I have everything under control but end of burning the one thing that needed to get done. Tonight, I ended up wasting more time re-doing our dinner instead of making my hungry kids happy in the most efficient way. I haven't figured out the solution to my problem and I don't think I ever will. I will always have a million things to do and a short amount of time to do them. I think the biggest thing I have to take into consideration at home and work are my priorities. What is the most important thing on my list? Are my kids screaming because they are hungry? Then making dinner is the most important thing. Is my marketing department swamped with projects because I don't have enough employees to keep up with the work? Then I need to hire another graphic designer. I guess this is part of my New Year's Resoultion to effective time-management practices.
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day, right? What are your multi-tasking secrets? Let me know!
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