HyperTasking™

I have enough time this morning to write a succinct blog for a change.

The only thing I have to fear today is the deluge with my esteemed assistant out of the office on vacation.

Yesterday was one of those days where I went to work on some R&D projects (That's Research and Development for the non-techies) only to find all sort of things broken throughout the network. No rhyme, no reason. Just little things that weren't terribly related, but yet somehow necessary for my projects. Figures.

I have some weird form of dyslexia that ties in with my lack of memory. You see, I constantly will be in the middle of something and all of sudden remember - oh yeah, I've got this other thing that I wanted to do. Do I go write it down on some list to come back to later? Hell no - that list is in 12 places and, if combined, would result in my untimely suicide. Nope, I just start HyperTaskingâ„¢. What's that? It's when you start working on two tasks at the same time, switching back and forth between pauses. Like right now - I'm writing this blog and scrubbing my email (a technical term) and researching the origin of the term "Email Scrubbing".

So the question is - am I really productive by being this unfocused on one thing at a time? I don't think I am. In fact, I'm beginning to think this is a large part of why I'm so far behind at any given time.

There! I did it again. When I paused after that last paragraph, I went and read an email! Curse my HyperTaskingâ„¢ ways!

It's now 7:36. Okay, so my blog isn't complete. It needs to be - I should get going to work and see if I can beat the crowds in. Oh, see, right there - I was tempted to go to my email again and do some more scrubbing.

I wonder what would happen if I went back to one monitor? Maybe then I could stay focused. Is that too old fashioned?

I'm having a crisis and it's not even 8:00am yet!

Breathe. Don't look at email, the time, the date, system tray icons, the Google sidebar - any of it.

Okay, to the car. No, don't clean the bathroom on the way downstairs... No, don't make the bed... Just get to the car... Stop! No, don't check the sprinklers - they're fine! Just get in the damn car and drive... okay, you don't need to reprogram your GPS memory points... JUST GO TO WORK...

Gregsta: HyperTaskâ„¢ Victim