Was Speedy Gonzalez a multi-tasker - When I Grow Up

Was Speedy Gonzalez a multi-tasker - When I Grow Up When I was a little girl in elementary school, I was a rusher. No, Rolling Hills did not give out ribbons for First Person to Finish Their Macaroni Collage. Yet there I was, time in, time out, rushing my macaroni collage so I could be the first one done. Did I think it made me look smart? Maybe someone told me so, but when macaroni collages turned into tests, I would often make careless errors because I was rushing. Now Im a woman who has recently been told that I use only 15% of my personality to pay attention to detail (shown by test results from the Insight Institute). I shouldnt have been shocked, but I was. Im someone who is very organized, focused, and so I thought detail oriented. But the rest of the test was dead on, so I started paying a bit more attention I started noticing how I would only pay attention to detail in the fact that I would know I needed to double-check an important email before sending. But even when I make a mental note to slow down and look it over carefully before sending it out, I physically could not do it. My eyes would scan and look for important words, see if anything was missing, and then have to click send. When I went through the blogs I wanted to read, I realized that it was rare to read a whole sentence. My mind was already wondering how long it will take to get to the bottom, almost like it was saying, Hurry up! Im sure theres something more to read on the next blog! So now Ive come to the conclusion that in order to fulfill my goal of being a mono-uni-tasker, I have to fully be present in each moment. Not thinking ahead of what else I need/want to do, not thinking back of what was done and how it went. But focusing on what Im doing, breathing it in, digesting it, and not even thinking about anything else. Theres more to this mono-uni-tasker challenge than I thought. Ive been doing pretty good with one thing at a time until its done, but how do you shut out the voices in your head? Do you have a way of calming your mind? If you do, please share it in the Comments section!