Woop, my attention span just reached its end point.  I am preparing for a talk I’m giving this Friday.  Now for something totally different.  I’ll have to find a variety of things to switch to and from for each hour.  I can’t sit on one task for more than that.

I’m also emceeing tonight for the weekly meeting.  This is not something I do very often.  It’ll be fun.  Now to think of something witty to say.

Oop, it just turned about midnight and the lights across the street on the outside of Shopper’s Drug Mart just turned off.  Good to know that they don’t stay on all night.

It has come to my attention that I have a very short attention span.  I knew this, but it has become way more clear lately.  Some examples include not being able to sit in one place for much more than an hour — in class I would get quite restless, or sleepy (both exhibiting that my attention was lost). Today I was reading some articles on evangelism and I almost fell asleep after reading through 4 sheets of notes (the library was way too quiet, I have never done very well in libraries, I realize).

For some reason I cannot think of too many examples right now.  My Birkman Personality profile rates my need for “change” as quite high.  I’m not sure how to reconcile this with myself since I really do desire to pay attention to important things that excite me.   Also, I desire to read for longer periods of time.

It’s possible when I schedule my time I need to use smaller chunks as a result of my need for variety.  There is no value in placing huge chunks of single-task monotony in my day, since I will inevitably wander off and get distracted.

I’m not really sure what has contributed to this issue.  Is this a general trend of our culture?