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8 Ways To Improve Your Focus At Work
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Work in chunks
Our brain focuses best in short spurts, so dedicating 25 minutes to one activity, taking a five-minute break, and then resuming that activity or switching to another activity for another 25 minutes will help.
This is also known as the Pomodoro Technique.
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Multitasking is killing your productivity
44% of work distractions are self-inflicted and another 23% come from emails.
That means you have complete control to cut out (or at ...
Single-task benefits
- When you work on one thing at a time, you tend to work on the right things, because you have to plan your tasks.
- When you single-task you accomplish more in less time with less stress. Intentionally focusing on one task at a time has been proven the most efficient way to move through your to-do list.
Cut out distractions
- Turn off notifications or at least turn on priority notifications.The time and mental focus lost in attention-switching even for a second adds up throughout the day.
- Use two computers - one for doing work and productive things, the other to do unproductive work.
- Only keep one tab open at time.
It’s a concrete way to make sure that you’re only working on what you intentionally decided to be working on.
Use several separate desktop spaces as an alternative to one tab. One for communication, the other for different projects planned for the day.
Work offline whenever possible.
Schedule your email time.
Handle any emails that will take 2-minutes or less. Add everything else to your to-do list to focus on later.
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Be a Game Master
- Reward yourself for fulfilling one or several tasks
Use surprise rewards.
- Determine a reward by chance.
Gamify Your Business
Product Gamification
- Add new features to a product to make it addictive when used.
Marketing Gamification
- Gamify experiences to increase loyalty among existing clients.
Workplace Gamification
- Train employees and help them grow into a leader.
Gamify Your Life with Apps
- Do It Now (RPG To Do List)
- Habitica/HabitRPG (Boosts General Productivity)
- MindSnacks (Language Learning Apps)
- SuperBetter (App for Tracking a Single Difficult Goal)
- Fitocracy (Workout Fitness Log)
- Productivity Challenge Timer
- LifeRPG (Task List Based on a Mission-Oriented Approach)
- EpicWin (RPG-Style To-Do List)
- Life Strategy (Life Managing App)
- Thirty – Get Inspired (Habit-Building App)
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The "frog"
It is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it.
It is also the one task that can have the greatest positiv...
Brian Tracy
"One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all".
The ABCDE prioritization approach
- A items : Things you must do, which will have a serious positive or negative consequence.
- B items : Things you should do, that have minor consequences.
- C items : Things that are nice to do but don’t have any real consequences when they’re done.
- D items : Things to delegate so you can free up more time to do A tasks.
- E items : Things to eliminate. Generally stuff you do out of habit.