Be present

For any focused work session, we should prevent the distractions we can control.

• Allow only a select few emergency channels to go through and interrupt you. Turn off all other notifications on your phone and computer.
• Ensure your email inbox is closed.
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• Scan your email occasionally to reassure yourself that nothing catastrophic is happening in your absence.
• Try some activities, maybe something new, so you can have so much fun you forget all work related stress.
• Turn off your phone and email notifications...

1. Instead of checking your email endlessly, limit the number of times you check your inbox. 
2. Get things out of your email and onto your to-do list: If an email requires action beyond a response, then add that task to your to-do list where it belongs.
3. Don’t read...