Today I hopped on the computer to pull up my blog, and immediately after opening a new browser and typing in my blog address I opened a new tab for Facebook, a new tab for Gmail, and a new tab for Twitter.
I then had four tabs up and I clicked back and forth between them for about 5 minutes; waiting for one thing to load as I looked at another for 30 seconds. After those 5 minutes passed I paused and lifted my fingers off the keyboard. I couldn't remember why I had got on the computer. Oh - right! My blog. I quickly scanned my tabs for the title, clicked on it, then paused again.
What the heck, I thought...why do I have so many tabs open? This is so distracting. I can't focus on my blog like this.
So I closed each tab until I had my blog open on one page. And then I focused.
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If you think I'm going to turn this little story into a life lesson, you would be right.
Too many tabs open - nothing gets done. Or, more specifically, nothing gets done well. At some point what I thought was excellent multitasking become just poor concentration skills.
I'm for damn sure that I don't want to be mediocre good at lots of things and super-duper good at nothing. I don't want lots of little friendships and no few great ones.
At a gradual rate I began allowing myself to believe that more at once was better than one at once. No more of that.
One tab at a time, young'n. One tab.
