With a 9 year old son and a 8 year old daughter, there is no such thing as a straight line between 2 points at our house. The line kind of roams…all over the house. At my house, we call it getting sidetracked. I was telling my trainer about getting sidetracked when she said, “yeah, we call it S.O.S.” ”S.O.S.?” I said with some confusion. “Shiny Object Syndrome”, she laughed.
I sometimes worry that all my inputs push me towards S.O.S. There’s voicemail, the web, email, Twitter, FaceBook, and a Blog, just to name a few. What I have to guard against is losing my focus and becoming ineffective by swatting at everything that demands my attention. Do you have the same problem? Try this. When you get an email, do you have to check it immediately? When your phone rings, do you have to answer it immediately, even if you’re already in the middle of another conversation? Do you live on Twitter or FaceBook? If you answered yes to any of those, then you, like me, may need to work on your focus and minimizing interruptions. You can do simple things like, set your email so you have to check it manually and turn your phone on vibrate when you’re in another conversation. Do you really need to immediately answer every call and respond to every email as quickly as it comes in or do you have a little S.O.S like me?
