Selecting controls question

Hi all,
So as I’m animating it seems I have to press the “A” key a lot to deselect controls before I can select another one. It is not always that way but enough to be annoying. Has anyone come up with a better solution or workflow? Ideally, I would like to select and move the controller and as soon as I am done moving it, and release the mouse button, it deselects.

Thanks

What’s the problem

Select an object, do something with it
Select another object and do something with it. The previous object will automatically be unselected unless you have set your selection option to extend the selection.

How are you selecting ?
Show a screencast of what you are doing and what the issue is