Short Journeys - Spring Cleaning
Mireille Guiliano writes in latest book “French Women For All Seasons” – “Sometimes we must make do with a short interior journey, such as focusing on a simple task – the French woman’s zen.”
Guiliano mentions this in her chapter on fall, but I think it holds true even moreso for the winter months. The winter months of January and February after the holiday rush is over and family members have once again dispersed to their respective homes can be downright depressing. When friends call my mother (who’s lived alone for many years now – and knows a thing or two about solitude), she tells them to clean out a drawer.
The sense of accomplishment far exceeds the simplicity of the task.
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Interesting new and old idea — to focus on the task at hand. We’ve found lately in the workplace that multitasking often creates more stress and more unfinished projects. Hurrah for one thing at a time!
Although it’s a French woman who writes about the Zen of the ’simple task’, I think that multi-tasking ties in much more with the general way of French day-to-day life. If you’ve ever been in a French hair salon, you will see multi-tasking carried out to the most absurd proportions. And yes, Paris is a more stressful city because of this. No project goes unfinished (except for the Tour St. Jacques and Les Halles.)
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Focus on one simple task at hand can help in the business day, too. We’ve started to look closely at multitasking and are finding that it wears out the spirit…and quality suffers.