You know in coaching we talk a lot about focus and how it is key to making things happen, succeeding and even improving our communication. I don' think we talk enough about how focus also helps us to be happier....I find it hard to really enjoy things when I am spread out over 5 different things happening at the same time, not being able to have anything of depth. It is not that we don't need to multi-task but that multi-tasking should not be what is happening in our "off time"- that needs another dimension, one of focusing on depth...and I think that is rapidly disappearing in our younger generation- what do you think Here is a great article below.
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Are We Losing Our Focus?
--by Jill Suttie, syndicated from Greater Good, Dec 20, 2013
In a new book, Daniel Goleman argues that focus leads to greater happiness, better relationships, and increased productivity.
Daniel Goleman, renowned author and psychologist, writes that the ability to focus on one task to the exclusion of others is a lost art for many. Yet the skill of focus is connected to greater happiness, better relationships, and increased productivity. He writes that balancing inner, other, and out...
http://www.dailygood.org/story/605/are-we-losing-our-focus-jill-suttie/
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