Multi tasking v/s multi focusing

I did search on Google for "multi task and multi focus" and got About 10,600,000 results (0.23 seconds) .........

We have 15 billion brain cells connected with circuit structure equals to thousands of cities. My ear can hear 1600 different frequencies, ranging from 20 to 20000 cycles per second. My eyes can detect a single photon of light and the 80000 fibers in each of my optic nerves transmit info from 132 million rods & cones to my brain. more than 300 million air sacs in my lungs provide oxygen to the 100 trillion cells throughout body. my 206 bones and 656 muscles form much diverse but still coordinated machine ever made..............AND HOW CAN EVER IMAGINE AND ACCEPT THE FACT I CAN NOT DO MORE THAN 1 TASK..................RIDICULOUS.

D.......something is wrong with this understanding.......

I do understand this is conclusion based on lot research by lot of organisation and lot of great scholars...............but still......

.......Something is missing.......

Let me jump one more thing which i believe key factor ..............or reason ...........why i believe malti tasking is very viable.............CATEGORISATION.

How you categorise your task/goals/people/place/experiences/situations/emotions/objects/results/failure/etc/etc into a common bucket............. how you categorise these.........and very important how you un-categorise the same..............and than re-categorise the same.

In a very simple situation........... you are on a long drive to a vacation destination........

1. Your driving on high way.

2. You are engaged in conversation with your wife.

3. Your eye is on the rear view mirror for the vehicle coming behind.

4. Your eye is on left mirror for the vehicles over taking.

5. Your eye is on the right mirror for probable surprises.

6. Your keeping eye through rear view mirror on activities of your children in back seat.

7. Your also keeping watch for next coffee shop.

8. Thinking about the hotel you will be chking in.

9. Thinking of the plan for the day once you reach the destination.

10. listening to your wife.

11. listening to the music in the car.

12. listening horn sound out side.

13. sensing something wrong with A/c leading to low temperature.

14. etc

15. etc

You are doing all this to ensure you " have great time with family". Your NOT DOING "driving"........you are DOING "have great time with family".

I am sure lot of above would have been disturbance for the driver if you have hired a driver . His assumed expectation is to DO the "driving".

What is the point!?

difference is categorisation.............in first instance person is focused on " have great time with family" all other tasks including driving form part of this vision or goal. While in later case............driving by itself is the focus.

I believe it works in both office and other personal environment as well.

If the team is aligned to a vision, a goal or a common object than it will impossible for them to feel .............. handling a meeting, a customer call, priority of operation , escalation from management..........as multi task. rather is will be for a purpose of achieving common goal.

It is very important to create common goal in life................this is key to give work-life balance......

You will no longer see your personal life and office life as mutually exclusive as you see both stream on inter connected and inter related to achieve that common goal.

If you think about it........... every task is a muti task if you break it into sub tasks. It is once bias and language...............which make certain task sound like single task.

What do you think?

Harish B K (हरीश, 海瑞士 , ハリッシュ)

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"Keep Doing............"

Courage...Compassion....Connection....and Vulnerability

Something moved inside me when i saw this slide.........something knoded its head with approval inside me.

This must be the thing which has made me to put website, make a resume which disects my full slef than just my traditional resume.

This talk gave a dimension to my thinking of why its ok to be vulnerabel.... its about:

Courage to accept my own imperfection....

Compasion with my own self.....being a selfish fool

Connect with onself....strive every day to achive this

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

Why I did what I did.......

What I did:

I Changed my Job......I moved from Microsoft to Honeywell. Yes, You are correct...I moved to my earlier company.

How I did:

I am not trying to tell you..... how I changed the job. I am want share how I arrived at decision to change the job. In reality it was not a decision to change the job . It was a decision to re consolidate my strength position .


It started with a thought.....a year back...... when i wanted to understand what is that i do which making me successful or failure in what I do. It was search beyond hard skill and soft skill. As I was convinced there are people with better education, knowledge and soft skill than me or less than me............ but the difference in result (success or failure) vary beyond the difference b/w these skills.

First steps happened to be i choosing a NLP based experience with "fire walk". I did walk on hot coal. It was about understanding your fears and finding your real you. yes...i realised...real identity inside is by default is of strength but it get shaded by fears which we don't even recognise.

Than....i wanted to learn the skills of understanding our selves and understanding other at this deeper level. That made me to learn NLP....I went up to NLP master practitioner certification.

I started assessing myself.

My first stop was.....understanding what is my life goals are....I did found out ... " My life is about Being honest, successful, keeping family happy and above all being “myself” ". I was able to touch on my identity as I see myself .... "Selfish fool". This fitted very well with what I truly believe and what ever I have done till date .

Next stop was at understand at personal level dissect my Characteristic and behaviour. Tony Robbins personal strength and behaviour mapping helped me a lot as first step.

I went further with much known methods of assessing my strength and character types ( they cost you a bit but worth every penny!!!).

1. "Strength Finder 2.0" by Tom Rath.....Gallup Press.

2. "Emotional Intelligence 2.0" by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves......TalentSmart.

3. Mayer-Briggs personality test

These helped me to identify my strengths, Character type, My core interests & Environment I work which will help me to do my best.

Final part was my resume to state what my skills stand for.... "My area of expertise include payroll transformation, HR service Implementation & operation, HR service Outsourcing Strategy and governance. I am a certified Six sigma Black Belt & Lean expert. I am also a Master NLP practitioner. My leadership style is of “Service leader”." .

All this took close to 11 months to come together and make sense. Than I told my self..........if these are the things about me which will make me successful or failure than this what an organisation should know if they hire me or have already hired me.....apart from my resume. So I created my resume what I call "Why...How...What ....resume". An approach to make your representation inside out rather than outside in with a conventional resume.

I believe ...if you fully focus on something and work your way towards it. Than what you wished for will get realised. I got opportunity from Honeywell at this point. It all came together well. So I joined Honeywell.

It was also important at this point for me to understand how this can be a good choice in terms of environment to express my skill and behaviour. Moving from a environment which has single Industry, $ 60Billion revenue with 40% Gross margin company to a Multi industry, $32 Billion revenue with 24% Gross margin....... it was choice about....which drives urgency and strategic position a Share Service takes in each company.

Why I did:

This is my attempt to align self with my strengths, environment & behaviour .

as an end note......you always get what you always really wanted as long you know what you really want. Do take time to find out what you REALLY want. Crux is knowing WHAT YOU REALLY WANT.

As I always did from past 5 years...... I continue to do my Life planning than just carreer planning. I belive this make your work life less stressful as you know exactly why you are doing what you are doing.

Dont tell your goal to others untill it is achived!!!

My mother and wife always tell me and my children..........not to pronounce our goals so loudly to others.......it will attract evil eyes........now I understand those evil eyes are my own evil eyes of my subconscious mind. How thoughtful !!!!

Smiling face or filled box

It was Saturday afternoon…a lazy afternoon. My sister was at our place. Discussion got into special dishes they prepared for last festival and how they felt about the effort and experience of the preparation. My mother was giving some tips to my sister and my wife and sharing her experiences.

I was a mute spectator. I bored to be so…….. I jumped into the discussion. I asked them a question. How do you feel after the almost a day long effort in preparing those oil fried dishes? my sister quick to answer …”very tired….”. She is doing this from past 15 years. My mother said….” It is not tiring at all…”.

Some back ground about my mother and sisters cooking skills and cooking behaviors. Both of there preparation taste absolutely same, both try to share there dishes with atleast 2 or 3 other s (other than there own house)…it will either neighbors or relatives or friends or all. They love to prepare and share. They do prepare these dishes bit and fill it in quite a big boxes.

I asked them second question, “what images you see in your mind when you are preparing or what you will be thinking during cooking”. Obviously they will not be thinking about the recipe as preparing these dishes are their expertise. My sister said “I keep thinking about the box which I need to fill to ensure I serve enough to all”. My mother said “I keeping thinking about smiling faces of my grand children, Harish saying ‘this is very good!!!’ and other smiling faces……”

It was big learning for me…….my mother was not getting tiered as she was thinking smiling faces with life. My sister who was thinking lifeless object of filling the box was ending up tiered.
This incident can get interpreted in many different ways. But striking resemblance which I was able to connect was………….what happens in companies with people who work to make the Metrics right compared to people who try to see smile on the customer face.

Well I didn’t mention about my wife response…as she didn’t give one…… though I can imagine her response would have been ….”I keep thinking about the new dress my husband would get me for preparing delicious dishes….”. Well that reminds me of people in companies who work keeping the performance review in mind. Your guess is right….she also feels tired after such cooking.

Inside out

I belive this is teh true defination of "Inside out approch".......... This will work. Let us try asking "why we do what we do"............. be sure not to quote a "result" as a reason.........

Let the drama & game happen.....

I was finding it difficult to elevate my "foolishness" energy. Energy which let me drive through clouded mountain road with my instinct driving towards my goal......and.........I feel intellectual exuberance with information flowing from unconscious to conscious ...........

I missed this driving force for some time now.



This week end I was in a training session on Transaction analysis for personal excellence.



I realised.............



we must let the drama happen around you.


.......Better if it happen on stage.



But



we should never allow the drama to happen inside you.



You should not ........ belittle yourself or.............. try to get one up position over yourself or......... tell your self " I cant cope with this".


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we do split our self in these situations by playing game between our rational self , our Child hood/early life learnings and what has been embedded into us by our parental figures.



Which ever part of our SELF wins........it will let other SELF peaceful. this in turn bring down energy.
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Some more learnings from the session...........

We rarely stop and ask this question..........what is the end game..........what do I want from this life...... probably 5 question we can dwell upon

1. What do you want to happen in this life?
2. What will leave you satisfied with this life?
3. What would leave you dissatisfied with this life?
4. What is your strategy to prevent disappointment?
5. What is your strategy to get satisfaction?

No right or wrong answer............start your search for answers.......

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We spend our time in :

1. Doing nothing with outer world.
2. Doing some familiar and repeated stuff which we do every day &/or every month &/or every week &/or every year.
3. Doing thing without any action or target or aim or result.
4. Doing thing to get specific result or achieve specific goal.
5. Doing something to get 'result A' but externally it looks like we are working towards getting 'result B'
6. Doing things to completely express our true feeling without any kind of censoring.

We always strive achieve certain very personal portfolio of everything at its best balance. Depending upon of our life experiences, Age, relationships, environment etc............the portfolio balance keep changing and internal expectation of what should this balance be........also changes.

If we you look at item 4 where we doing something to get specific result this comes to close to our work/job. This can again be broken 6 same parts.

The optimum balance of these 6 which we want to achieve in any given time and what we actual have on hand. the gap creates our satisfaction with either our life or with our job.

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And while driving back on that end..............I saw a line "Nothing is impossible" behind a car...............but somehow on that day that didn't make sense..............I felt it is better to say "everything is possible".

"Nothing is impossible" sounded like "Nothing is impossible to ME"

While.........

"everything is possible". sounded like ""everything is possible to EVERYONE".