Enlightened Multitasking

Saying that work life is increasingly challenging would be to state the obvious. We see all around us the result of budget cuts, fiscal strain and the stress of our co-workers as they try to cope with their own duties - already a challenge - and then with new responsibilities that they have to absorb as the result of layoffs.

Just today, I am doing my own thing, the new duties recently added, covering for a vacationing co-worker and working with my wife to transfer my son to a school less than a mile away instead of going to the county line as the school system is trying to send him. Add to that, answering e-mails and phone calls from people who complain that they're not getting what they need from me in a timely fashion and they don't understand why while at the same time, slyly questioning my competence.

My solution is simple. When it comes crashing down, banish the ego. Up until now, my ego would have had me lash out and yell at them that they did not understand what I was going through and why am I the only one this is happening to. The burgeoning enlightenment within myself immediately gets present, concentrating on breath so that I am immediately drawn into the moment. When that clarity comes, I see that the reason the pressure is on me, is that it's on everyone else, too.

It is also helpful to take a gratitude break. After all, I am grateful that I work in a career field that I love and after the working hours are over, I am blessed to go home to a family I am grateful to have. Those two things, and so much more, lift my spirits and enable me to redouble my efforts to get the job done. I get to leave the building each day and head for home filled to bursting with gratitude vibes that keep me going.