Best Self Magazine

Keeping It Simple: Single Tasking Is the New Black for Mindfulness & Productivity

Keeping It Simple: Single Tasking Is the New Black for Mindfulness & Productivity by Melissa Andrisen. Photograph of a mom and daughter cooking by Le Creuset
Photograph by Le Creuset

You might think being a multitasker is a good thing, but often we benefit from focusing on only one task at a time

As long as I can remember, I’ve prided myself on my ability to multi-task. There is not much I can’t combine into one task if called to the challenge. For instance, I’m able to get my dinner to a simmer, then run up the stairs to transfer the clothes from the washer to the dryer, all while pronouncing words for my six-year-old who yells out the letters from the other room. 

I thought this skill helped me accomplish so

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Best Self Magazine

Best Self Magazine3 min readCrime & Violence
An Invitation to Peace
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes — We live in a world where war coverage is live, social media keyboard warriors are loud and fierce, and racism and “anti-thisism” and “anti-thatism” ring loudly in our ears. Every day, we are bombarded with negativ
Best Self Magazine4 min read
When a Pregnancy Follows a Loss
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes — She was a beautiful baby, with long black eyelashes and big dark lips. I will never know the sound of her coo or the color of her eyes. They never opened. My first child was born dead. Stillborn. She moved and gre
Best Self Magazine7 min read
How I Left: Reflections on My Journey into Marriage…and Out
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes — My grandmother was fourteen when a man in her Southern Italian village asked to marry her. He was twenty-eight, a stranger to Gramma. She said, No! But her mother told her, “Marry him. He’ll take you to America.”

Related