Set A Time Limit
This is something that can be applied to various every day activities and can speed up your productivity and limit your distractions.
It’s all too easy to let time slip away or get side-tracked or distracted when working on a particular task – for instance when checking emails. While it might be important to get your emails responded to, do you often find you’ve just spent an hour going through your emails when you had something more important you needed to do.
Get yourself a simple kitchen timer and set a time limit for certain tasks. For instance - set a limit of 30 minutes to read and respond to emails, 15 minutes to start work on a report or just 10 minutes to get you going on something that you've been putting off or an hour for longer tasks. When the timer goes off switch to the next task. It makes a big difference when you know the clock is literally ticking, as you’ll get on with things and not get distracted.
It can also be useful to set an hourly alarm to remind you to get up, take a break, have a drink of water etc. or just to refocus.
As it's the season of good will, if you want to help a worthy cause, I just found that you can donate a digital timer through the Cancer Research website, so you get to improve someone else’s productivity and help a good cause at the time.
It’s all too easy to let time slip away or get side-tracked or distracted when working on a particular task – for instance when checking emails. While it might be important to get your emails responded to, do you often find you’ve just spent an hour going through your emails when you had something more important you needed to do.
Get yourself a simple kitchen timer and set a time limit for certain tasks. For instance - set a limit of 30 minutes to read and respond to emails, 15 minutes to start work on a report or just 10 minutes to get you going on something that you've been putting off or an hour for longer tasks. When the timer goes off switch to the next task. It makes a big difference when you know the clock is literally ticking, as you’ll get on with things and not get distracted.
It can also be useful to set an hourly alarm to remind you to get up, take a break, have a drink of water etc. or just to refocus.
As it's the season of good will, if you want to help a worthy cause, I just found that you can donate a digital timer through the Cancer Research website, so you get to improve someone else’s productivity and help a good cause at the time.
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