Life Hack
Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:31
- Embrace Your Fear. Recognize that you will be distracted sometimes and accept those distractions as opportunities to improve.
- Plan For Interruptions. Effective planning is a cornerstone of the productive lifestyle. Plan extra time in to satisfy distractions.
- Delegate And Postpone. Once you've identified an interruption as something that needs attention, try to postpone your involvement.
- Attack Procrastination. The simplest way to attack procrastination is to synthesize urgency with truncated deadlines. If it normally takes you 3 hours to do something, hit the bathroom, grab a glass of water, set a timer for 90 minutes, and tear into your work!
- Split Your Day Into Targets. Distractions are most dangerous to the person working without short-term goals. You can keep yourself out of the danger zone by setting targets throughout your day.
- Limit Inputs. The more you limit channels people can use to distract you, the less likely it is that you'll be distracted.
- Batch Outputs. Responding to emails in batches and scheduling a block of time to make phone calls etc
- Communicate Your Schedule To Others. When it comes to managing people-based distractions, communication is key. Need to finish a project? Let the people in your work group know that you'll be off-limits until a certain time.
- Begin With The Main Point. When you encounter a distraction, get to the heart of it immediately.