ES Club: 'Dealing with Distractions'

Tasks with Partners:

- Did you swim on the holiday this week? Would you like to try swimming in such cold water? What is the coldest place/time/memory that you have ever experienced?

- If you had money and time-off from work for the next week, would you rather go on a ski or snowboard vacation, or go to the beach somewhere warm?

When you work from a home office it is easy to get distracted from work, especially if it is work that you do not particularly enjoy like prospecting or cold calling. 

Here are a few ideas that can help manage these distractions and improve your productivity /by: Kelley Robertson/.

- Create an office. 

- Set specific “business” hours. This is particularly important if you have young children. It can be very difficult for children to understand that they can’t disturb us while we’re working.

- Use a “to do” list—everyday. Having a list of what you need to accomplish each day can help keep you focused; otherwise, it becomes too easy to do other things around the house. If you know that you need to accomplish a certain number of tasks by the end of the day, it can prevent you from getting distracted during the day. One of the challenges with this is that household duties or running errands are more enjoyable compared to work we have to complete. 

- Set deadlines for the projects you’re working on. Although I don’t have anyone holding me accountable to these deadlines, it find that this approach can help keep me on track. You can also share these deadlines with other people to help keep yourself focused especially if this type of accountability works for you. 

- Give your permission to relax from time-to-time. It’s okay to allow yourself to get distracted once in a while. As long it’s not a regular occurrence, you don’t have to worry too much about it. However, if your relaxation time overtakes your work time, then you need to reconsider your priorities. 

Perhaps, you have some other pieces of advice. Then share them with us and discuss the following questions.

                                     Distractions

1. Can you easily be distracted? What is it that most commonly distracts you when you are working or studying?
2. What can you do to stay focused when you need to complete an important task?

3. Do you day-dream often when you should be working or studying? What about?
4. Do you think that people would work or study better if women and men were working separately? For example, would boys study better if there were no women in the classroom?
5. How do you explain the difference between men and women found in the study?
6. Do you agree with these findings from your own life?

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