Multi-Tasking Mania

Originally published on http://zoefoodsblog.blogspot.com/.

I’m sitting at my desk in my Zoe Foods office with my earpiece on for my cell phone, typing on the keyboard for my desktop, and my laptop PC open and on to my right that I’m checking occasionally for interesting emails.

My director of operations, Tim, walks in and just starts to chuckle as he hands me something I recently printed and left on the printer (one of my many projects). I look at him with a quizzical look, and then say, “oh thanks, yeah, I printed that.” He said, “Why don’t you have a phone hooked up to your other ear, since you’ve got a computer going for each eye?”

Tim turns to leave and I say, “Ooh, now I have my next blog idea – thanks.” I take the earpiece off after listening to Verizon’s hold music (trying to get a new phone number for our home which we just moved into a couple of weeks ago) when I realize that after 25 minutes on hold, I had become accustomed to Verizon’s hold music and that it was actually helping me to tune out all of the junk and focus on just one project.

Hmmm, how many things am I working on at the moment? Well, I’ll only admit to several. How many different things are going through my brain, that’s a story for another day, but probably common to many entrepreneurs and multi-tasking moms – and when you combine the two – well, watch out!

How much can any of us really get done at one time, and get done well? Am I really accomplishing more by having so many projects going at once, or is Zoe Foods that grossly understaffed? Questions to ponder for another time… because now I’m going to run home to spend a little quality time with my kids before I go to an EO (Entrepreneur’s Organization) Board meeting.