The Adult Blend

It sounds like something NSFW, doesn't it?! 😉

No, this isn't anything sensual. This is just something that I consider to be a good part of my day these days. What am I referring to?! Well being able to blend things together to maximize the use of my time.

Lately I've been doing a number of things, more than I have before, when my son goes to bed. It's a mad dash to get things done between when he falls asleep and when I am supposed to fall asleep. I've often got laundry to fold, dishes to put in the dishwasher or put away in the drawers and some light cleaning to do. This is what I am calling the adult blend. Combine that with writing some posts on Hive, dropping comments and all the while listening to podcasts. It feels like quite a concoction on the nightly but it has been very therapeutic for me.

I am definitely trying to be flexible in my habits and styles of doing things. I have to be because it's important for my brain and my mental state overall. I do like to get into habits and routines for things but having the ability to be flexible on that front is really important. When I am flexible, I am able to adapt to things quicker than I would be otherwise. With the world the way it is today, that's a really important thing in a lot of ways!

What I think is important to be able to do is generate satisfaction from these types of things. By being able to get satisfaction from getting house work done, getting some educational stuff added into it, and then also some fun downtime, I am able to really help improve my mental state. Having a good mental state is so important for the world we are living in today, where things are so chaotic and in a lot of ways evil, that it's important we fight back on that as much as we can with our minds.

The negative control of our minds is an agenda as old as time, when we think of it. Back in the middle ages around the invention of the printing press, it was incredibly damaging for the church and religious state for people to think for themselves. So much so that many people were killed for getting people exposed to reading and thinking for themselves. Fast forward through the generations there are many examples where people thinking for themselves is not advantageous to the power structure and they are killed. Martin Luther is another example of this where he was pushing back against the religious power structures dogma and was killed for it.

By being able to expose myself to a very wide variety of different topics and thought tracks, I am able to help open up my world view quite a bit which is really important in the day we live in. There is far too much isolation and silo-ing of people. It is easier to control people when their perspectives are very focused on one thing and they don't have exposure to other areas. It is both nefarious as well as likely human nature to be focused instead of broad.

Combining all of these things certainly helps me check off a few boxes on my daily routines that's for sure!

What about you, do you find it enjoyable to multitask on things where you can do something subconsciously while consciously engaging in a topic? Let me know in the comments!