{"id":2727,"date":"2015-12-15T00:24:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2015-12-15T00:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:24:58","slug":"distracted-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/2015\/12\/15\/distracted-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracted Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hear so much about distracted driving these days. Texting and speaking on our phones (without headsets, etc.) \"Distracted-life1\"<\/a>are the offenses most talked about. I believe that there are other distractions that we should consider, whether we\u2019re operating a car or simply crossing the street as a pedestrian.<\/p>\n

I have been in three major car accidents. Two resulted in the car I was driving being written off. Each time I was in an accident, I know that it was because my mind was on other things. I wasn\u2019t talking on my phone or texting. There wasn\u2019t anyone else in the car with me and the weather wasn\u2019t bad. The truth is that I was distracted by the thoughts in my head. Whether it was about how horrible I was feeling because I was sick, running around getting ready to leave the country for a relative\u2019s funeral or heading to the office to fire someone for the first time \u2013 my mind was not on the road.<\/p>\n

Last week I witnessed 2 accidents in the intersection where I live. They were two days apart and it made me wonder what the heck is going on? Even as a pedestrian, I don\u2019t know how many close calls I\u2019ve had and I wasn\u2019t jaywalking! My theory is that we\u2019ve all got too much on our minds. We\u2019ve got a million and one things that we\u2019re thinking about and none of them have anything to do with the task at hand.<\/p>\n

We hear so much about the importance of living in the present moment, but how many of us practice it? For so long the ability to multitask was celebrated. We believed that the ability to do 20 things at a time was a good thing. Now, we realized that when our focus is spread too thin we don\u2019t get things done to the best of our abilities. We may be able to do a little bit of everything, but we don\u2019t do anything well enough to master it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to simplify our lives. If you\u2019re watching television, watch television \u2013 don\u2019t check your phone, your tablet or your laptop. If you\u2019re having dinner with family, turn the phones off. When you\u2019re on the road, focus on the drive, on getting home safely. Yes, there is a lot to get done, but it won\u2019t all get done today. Stop trying to get it all done today or worrying about the future. Focus on one task at a time and do it to the best of your abilities. You\u2019ll be happy you did!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hear so much about distracted driving these days. Texting and speaking on our phones (without headsets, etc.) are the offenses most talked about. I believe that there are other distractions that we should consider, whether we\u2019re operating a car or simply crossing the street as a pedestrian. I have been in three major car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1023,1024,453,1025,502,609,1026,537,1027],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtoftheday","tag-distracted-driving","tag-distracted-living","tag-distractions","tag-doing-one-thing-well","tag-embrace-your-destiny","tag-focus","tag-multitasking","tag-sandra-dawes","tag-texting-while-driving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbirzinc.com\/sandradawes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}