One Thing

This one thing I do . . . (Phil. 3:13).

How are you at multitasking?  Can you do many things well at the same time?  A Stanford News Service article focused on the price many are paying in the area of focus when they involve themselves in so many activities at the same time.  The article entitled, “Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price,” chronicles how many multitaskers are suffering from impaired performance.  They are losing their ability to focus as their cognitive abilities become overloaded.  The article begins, “Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble.”   The article continues:

 The researchers originally set out to discover what gave multitaskers their special focus; instead, they were surprised to discover that in many ways multitasking impairs performance. So while many people think they're effective at juggling multiple tasks, they're actually pretty lousy at it.  For instance, heavy multitaskers are suckers for distraction and for irrelevancy. According to one of the researchers, "Everything distracts them." Multitaskers were also more unorganized in their ability to keep and retrieve information. They were even worse at the main thing that defines multitasking: switching from one task to the next. Heavy multitaskers underperformed in almost every area of the study.

 

Paul knew the power of focus, of doing one thing well.  He knew that by doing less, one can do more.  Are you losing your focus by trying to do too much?  Why not simplify?