Just like physical clutter distracts our attention, digital clutter accomplishes the same. Clear visible, distracting digital clutter. You’ll love your newfound ability to focus.ĥ. Clear your desk, your walls, your counters, your computer’s desktop, and even your home of unneeded possessions. And the more we remove, the less visual stress and distraction we experience. Consider this: everything in our eyesight subtly pulls at our attention at least a little. Unnecessary clutter is a significant form of visual distraction. To live with less distraction, if a project can be completed in less than 2 minutes, just stop and get ‘er done so you won’t think about it anymore.Ĥ. Fortunately, many of these projects can be completed in far less time than we think. Our lives and minds are often cluttered and distracted by the many unfinished projects around us (unanswered email, household chores, financial responsibilities). Complete 1-2 minute projects immediately. You will feel the benefits immediately.ģ. Schedule your email processing and stick to that schedule. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we understand why the habit of checking email only twice/day is promoted over and over again by some of the most productive people in our world today (Michael Hyatt, Scott Belsky, Tim Ferriss). When we keep our email client open all day, we surrender our attention to the most recent bidder rather than the most important. As a result, you will be able to check your apps on YOUR schedule at your appointed times throughout the day, not just whenever Aunt Mabel hits reply all on the brunch chain email.Ģ.
To limit their distractive nature, turn off all notifications (Email, Facebook, Twitter, Games, even messages, etc.) as your own default setting. The average person now checks their mobile phone a hard to believe, 150 times every day (just short of every 6 waking minutes). Our smart phones have quickly become one of the greatest sources of distraction in our lives. Over at that have a list of 10 unconventional habits that will help you live life with less distractions:ġ. Ok, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, distractions! So sign up for the newsletter at and get your discount code for now. Over there they have a huge array of supplements, gear, plans, coaches and clothing that will help keep you healthy and fit. Best of all, just for signing up, you will receive a coupon code for 10% off at the online health and fitness store,. Please know that because I believe strongly in the idea of Inbox Zero, you will only receive an email once per week, and it will be short, to the point and easy to delete. The sign up form is on the righthand side of the page. I want encourage you to sign up for the Workplace Hero email newsletter over at. It’s when you can truly shut out the world and focus on a problem that the complexity and confusion often falls away.īefore I continue, let me interrupt you for a second… heh… In her book, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp said that “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.” and I agree.
After you listen to enough of these podcast, I hope to replace the voice of your conscience – “put down that donut and get back to work – when was the last time you got up from your desk – do you really need to be looking at Facebook right now – always take the stairs.” Is that creepy? Maybe a little… anyway… My name is Brock Armstrong, and I am here, deep inside your ears, planting seeds of inspiration, to make you into a Workplace Hero. Hello, my cubicle confusers, open space side trackers, corner office orientors, home den distractors, and coffee shop confounders. So, I am not just Grandpa Simpson shaking my fist at a cloud or telling those kids to get off my lawn – being chronically distracted is an actual problem. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine found that it takes a typical office worker 25 minutes to return to the original task after an interruption, and an experiment by the authors of The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success found that interruptions decreased work accuracy by a whopping 20%. Yeah, I know that every generation thinks the one immediately following it is doomed but the cost of these now ingrained distractions to our personal and professional life is well documented. It can be downright overwhelming at times and makes it really challenging to get focussed and get a job done. It’s not just our family, friends and co-workers but also our phones, our email and our social media that all fight for our attention at any given moment. Let’s face it, everything demands our attention these days.
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