Time and Distraction reflection
- Reflection on competing needs
- Start the day with a 10 minute planning space
- Use technology effectively to cut out duplication and repetition
- Hearing, Text, Visual and Tactile
- Learning Planning processes
- Remove Procratination
- Self reflect on organisational practices
- Develop a can do mindset
- An hour per day of distracted time translates into $10,375 of wasted productivity per person per year, assuming an average salary of $30/hour.
- That is more than the average U.S. driver will spend this year to own and maintain a car, according to the Automobile Association of America (AAA).
- Toggling between multiple applications/windows/tabs/items on the desktop contributes to the problem of distraction, along with using multiple devices at the same time.
- 45% of survey respondents keep at least six items open simultaneously, and 65% report using one to three desktop or mobile devices in addition to their main computer.
- Know yourself and what distracts you
- Change your atmosphere if necessary (turn down or up music, for instance)
- Limit computer distractions to certain times of day or a certain number of times (such as checking your email 3 xs/day)
- Don’t take calls unless convenient for you; you can call back
- Shorten conversations with coworkers
- STOP REACTING
- According to a 2007 study by Loughborough University academic, Thomas Jackson, most of us reply to e-mails immediately - many within six seconds. Then it takes at least a minute to recover our thoughts. Not long after, more e-mails arrive, with more checking, and so on.
