Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
You know, most of my life is like this. If I don't completely engage in the moment for whatever I'm doing, the rest of the things on my 'list' derail me and my productivity suffers greatly. In some ways, I look at it as being incapable of truly multi-tasking, but in reality, it could be viewed as ever changing 'flow'. When I'm focused on the farm, it's all I'm concerned with and I'm happy. When I'm networking on a college campus for work, it's all I'm concerned with and I'm happy. When I'm racing a triathlon, it's all I'm concerned with and I'm happy.

It's when I let my brain open up or 'wander' and all of the OTHER priorities come rushing in that I start to panic or get stressed. It happens a lot in the last few miles of a long training run where I start to think about what I have to do next and everything breaks down from my focus to my form to my enthusiasm for what I'm doing at that moment...

Interesting.
This is me too. I get immersed in the moment to the point where WWIII could be going on right around me and I might not notice it. I believe I am a mostly happy person and identified with all 12 points on the list and really enjoyed it. In fact I shared that list with several people over the next few days. I made several copies of it and gave them away. People smiled when they read the title and I'm sure it made many of those people pause for a few minutes to contemplate and hopefully it helped some people.

In all, I probably passed out 20 copies and I'm glad I did.

Like GLC I am happiest when fully engaged in the moment or task at hand and get discombobulated when too much is vying for my attention.

Thanks for the blog link, I'll have to get over to it.