Focus, focus….oooh pretty…..
July 21, 2009 by Marci
I have always joked about being borderline ADD. That’s kind of my excuse for not finishing projects. I do get bored easy and tend to flit around the house from project to project without finishing one completely. For example, this morning already, I came down to type an article I wrote yesterday. My plan was to knock it out fast before the kids got up. So, I came downstairs turned on my computer, got a drink of water. Then, I noticed my daughter left her ball glove and water bottle on the kitchen island. I put the glove away. On the way back to the water bottle, I noticed the computer was up and running so I sat down and opened up my email. Bad idea. Totally out of habit. There I noticed an email for my husband. He was still home, so I printed it off for him. The printer is upstairs and I am downstairs. The printer ran out of paper. I went upstairs, loaded the paper, waited for it to print and then gave the document to my husband who was looking out the window. “Looks like rain” he said. Being the weather geek that I am, I ran downstairs to check the weather online for him…not that he asked or anything. After checking the weather and giving my report, I sat down to type my blog post that I wrote yesterday. That made me remember I forgot to send an email about blogging to a friend. I sent the email. Now, I am finally ready to type that blog post. I have now lost interest in that post and the fact that I can’t stay focused is starting to bother me. So, I’ll write about that. Meanwhile, my daughter’s water bottle is still sitting here…staring at me.
Sound familiar? Just think how much more we’d get done and how much more present in our daily lives we would be if we would simply focus. I just read the book The Power of Less. My friend Kirwin at Gracefully Creative suggested it to me. It was amazing. You will be hearing more about it later, I’m sure. Focus is one of the principles the author talks about being important to simplifying your life.
Do you have trouble focusing or is it just me?
Comments (9)
wow — story of my life!
in fact, I came across this quite apropos site by a train of events very similar to what you described above.
you rate a definitive add to my Google Reader.
Ha – that email for Tom was from me, wasn’t it?
Thanks for the sweet email! Glad you liked my blog…hope to have it up and running with fun stuff to giveaway next week…hopefully!
I love your blog post today. If thats ADD, then I have it to. When my husband comes home and asks what i did today…this exact scenario is what starts coming out of my mouth…. a day in the life! Have a great day…
LOL
This post reminds me of the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… BTW, I can totally relate to this.
You are just like Little Billy on the Family Circle. I have more than a touch of this affliction as well.
Definitely not just you!! I have been having the same issues. Actually, I think you just wrote about me right down to the weather geek thing! LOL. I do think you are my long lost twin!
Love this post! Thanks Marci!
This one just cracked me up! I couldn’t tell if you were talking about YOU or ME! But, then you ran upstairs and since I don’t have an upstairs…well, you know. This is my daily life and you could let us know how to fix it I’d be truly grateful =)
Have a wonderful day!!
Sounds just like me!!! Glad I am not the only one!