Sometimes it feels like I have only one arm. If I don't get to something right away I will forget it. For example, just now I went to return my thumbprint ink pad to my notary bag. I picked up the ink pad from my desk and walked two feet, then decided to go check on the fax I was sending. I set the ink pad down in the supply room on a desk next to the fax machine. Then I gathered the fax success page and put away the fax documents back to the client file. Then I luckily remembered that I was going to put that ink pad away, and I luckily was able to find it on the desk in the supply room.
Another example, yesterday a client called in for me to call her back when we got her fax. I took down her name and number, and then went on to other things. It was a couple hours later before I remembered her fax, and by that time the Office secretary was already calling her back and confirmed the fax.
A third example: when I am cleaning up the house I will pick up a sock, but on my way to the clothes bin I will pick up a piece of trash, and then go to the trash can, and then pick up some toy or hairbrush and take it to the bathroom. Then I am wondering why I have a sock in my hand.
The whole point is, I am in such a desire to handle everything at once, that I am not efficiently dealing with anything. I think it is a common problem that most people have, and is best solved by following the counsel of Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He says that when times get turbulent, as with airline pilots, sometimes the best approach is to reduce our speed. We need to slow down and focus on one thing and get it resolved as best we can, so we can put it down and rest assured that it does not require any more attention. We also need to prioritize all the important tasks up front, and get to what we can in that priority.
