Rules that will help focus on the main thing and much more efficiently use your time:
- On the smartphone, turn off most of the alerts (both sounds and pop-up windows) of various programs, messengers, social networks. Like different service sounds. During important processes, you can include "night" or "airrest" - to be focused on priority. Even for unexpected telephone calls, you can configure drafts of response messages like: "Busy, call you back at the first opportunity."
- Batching: Wholesale instead of retail. Notifications about new emails E-mail - can be set at once a hour or manually check twice a day, for example, in 9 and at 17 o'clock. At the same time I recommend setting 3-4 intervals for the day when viewing social networks and news; You can combine it with an expensive in transport, for example.
Even there are special programs that help to keep the temptation to visit sites of certain social networks or some programs and games, it is enough to specify periods or time of blocking (the same programs can track the time of using a specific program or site - for interest in several weeks you can watch What is spent time lifetime).
- When working with a program (for example, a text editor), you can turn on the full screen mode so that the view does not roam the icons and windows of other programs.
- Configure sorting ("rules") mail (or mail program) so that letters from certain addresses immediately hit the desired folders, respectively, projects or topics or people. Then in the "incoming" there will be much less letters requiring sorting - there is no need to spend their forces on unnecessary routine actions.
- unsubscribe from mailing and subscriptions that are already irrelevant or uninteresting not to spend their resources for non-executive information. If it is necessary to find out the details about a kind of event or a new product, it can always be done on the relevant site.
This also includes a news tape, for example on Facebook: if I don't like that my friend makes 20 reposts on the day about the cats and nothing about yourself and your life, you can choose "Unfollow" in the menu - we will stay here, and in my friends Ribbon will be less unnecessary.
It is useful to remember that my head is not a trash.
- Stop priorities by communication methods, for example: phone call, Whatsapp, e-mail. The rest is messengers in Facebook and other systems, different personal messages on forums and blogs - it is not a single-communication option (although just in case of a couple of months you can check it all). And specify the preferred intervals of time for communication so that the borders are - at work to engage in workers, and home is home.
- in the office space you can hang a sign on the door or on the table with the inscription "Now busy, do not disturb"; Adhere to the graph during the day and pay attention to colleagues. Some use the following rule: if a person in headphones is not to contact him.
- On the desktop there must be only tools for a specific task. POST-IT documents and reminders about other affairs are better place on a separate table, rack or in a box. Snacks and trinkets are also not a place in the working area.
- If you are worried about the thoughts and ideas about other matters, they can be recorded in an Inbox scheduler or a corresponding project file. It takes just a couple of minutes and will be more effective than all day to hold it in my head.
- Increasing Rule number 1. : A list of cases and goals for a day with integral priorities helps to concentrate on an important and less pay attention to the secondary.
Andrei Ksenoks, Consultant on Issues, Guidance, Organization of Space, Time Management