February 4, 2022

This morning still half asleep I grabbed my cellphone to silence the alarm before it woke up the kids as well. I am forever trying to get up before them just to have a few minutes for myself before the day starts. And honestly, I am not much of a morning person. I usually only get some personality after my first cup of coffee.

So I grabbed my phone and saw that there was a message. I opened the message with my eyes still half-closed. It requested my cellphone number and password to view the message on Facebook. Without even thinking I typed it in. I still cannot believe that I actually did it. I can only blame it on the fact that it was too early to get up and I still needed more sleep.

Luckily I typed in the wrong password. At least one advantage of not being a bright and sparky morning person. But I immediately realized that I made a mistake! A stupid mistake. So now wide awake I got up and instantly changed all my passwords.

Interestingly enough this was the third time this week that I caught myself making a mistake because I was either not focusing or trying to do six things at the same time. Even my husband tried to help by encouraging me to become more aware of what is going on around me, and not just bulldozing forward to get everything done. And there is so much truth in that!

The moment things start spinning out of control we must almost stop dead in our tracks. Take some time to breathe. And refocus to prioritize. We love the idea that we are able to do it all. But all that idea is creating is more stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed women with already overfull schedules.

Is the ability to multitask something society has burdened us, women, with? Just because we can does it mean we should?

Hit the reply button and let me know what you think.

Thinking about it, we can really only do one thing at a time!

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