Closing the Loop

**Anna Duffy** (0:04)
Hey, hey, y'all, welcome to today's episode of Every Mom Needs a Friend.
I have missed y'all the last couple of weeks. I have so many things that I'm excited to tell y'all about, and yeah, I just would like for y'all to work through with me. Those will be upcoming on future episodes, and it maybe will give more information as to why over the last couple of months, there's been periods of time where I've been kind of out of commission. But I am coming to you today with a kind of ironic topic. It's one that I recorded many, many weeks ago. And then, to much surprise, it took me a long time to finish this episode. This episode is talking about closing the loop. So very ironically, I had a hard time closing the loop with this one. And so I'm excited for y'all to hear today's episode. Just know, it was coming from maybe a month ago, Anna. And I think y'all will get something out of it today. It was a very fun episode to write. And it's one that I've kind of, I don't know, written for a year. It's just one of those things that, like, I know a year ago, I was frustrated about, so I wrote down some notes. And then I often keep, like, tabs open in my notes, where I just write down thoughts whenever they come to me. So this episode came from a lot of different angles, for a lot of different moments, and ultimately took a long time to close the loop. So I'll hop into that today and give y'all more information on what that even means, if you don't know. But to start off, I thought it would be really fun to kind of give you this image that was presented at If Gathering, the women's conference I went to earlier this year.
And it was just so cool. Christine Kane, who I adore, she was talking about the feeding of the 5,000.
And, you know, even that count, the 5,000 count, that women and children weren't even included in the count. But that how this little boy's lunch, his offering to the miracle, was undoubtedly made by a mama that morning who had no idea her contribution to the miracle. So take a second and let that like simmer in and think about the things that we do every day as moms for our kids. They're contributing to a miracle either for your kids directly or for other kids. And there's just so many seeds planted that I just pray the Lord reveals to us pre-glory, but a lot of it will be maybe when we're in heaven, we get to watch like a movie of our life and all the ways that God interceded for us and all the little tiny things that add up.
And so, yeah, just seeing you today, sweet mama, and I hope that you'll partner with me in prayer over this kind of tumultuous time in my life.
Yeah, and I'm sorry to be so private about it all, but it's just there's a lot going on. But that being said, let's jump into this episode so I can finally close the loop on this episode. Okay, love y'all. Hope you enjoy.
Okay, I've done some research on this because this is so intriguing to me. The whole idea of multitasking is actually fake. It is, as I've researched, just your brain switching back and forth pretty quickly between tasks. And, you know, I think about that, like, a little kid is not good at multitasking, that I feel like as we get older, we learn that part of life is multitasking. Thinking about, like, talking on the phone while you're driving or talking to your kids while you're baking a cake, like, we can do these type of things because we've trained ourself that life is a series of multitasks. And I will say that there are some tasks that are obviously more hard to multitask. And if you're in work, I mean, I don't work outside the home, so I can't think of what it would feel like to right now be trying to balance the mental game of being a mom and trying to connect to work and be on computer. I just don't know how y'all are doing it. It's impressive, and it's really hard to do this. And so today we are talking about closing the loop and fully doing tasks. I just feel like so much in life, you've probably heard this analogy before, but where you are like a computer that you're leaving multiple tasks open and like a computer that has like Safari on my computer, sometimes I look up and I'm like, oh my gosh, I have 20 web pages open right now. And my computer sometimes gets overworked. And you know, like, I don't think computers do this nowadays, like my MacBook Air doesn't, but like I think of my computer that I had in college, like when it was getting overworked, it was actually getting hot. Do you remember it sitting on your legs and just getting hot? It's like your processing speed is going down and you're probably getting overworked and hotheaded. And the podcast I listened to on this, I think it was a stuff you should know, they talked about that the brain can split one to two tasks pretty easy. Like I said, baking a cake scenario, you can talk and stir at the same time. I mean, that's a super simple split, but it's about the introduction of the third component that absolutely jumbles the brain.