How to Handle Interruptions That Are Sucking All Your Energy in Your Day and Begin Overcoming Procrastination!

Outline for Tips for Handling Distractions to Start Overcoming Procrastination

1. Shocking Research Done on Distractions- Why You MUST Learn How to Avoid Distractions

2. Types of Office Interruptions

3. 5 Electrifying Tips on How to Prevent Office Interruptions

Why You Must Learn How to Avoid Distractions- The Biggest Time Vampires

In 2004, a study conducted by Gloria Mark and Victor Gonzalez on a group of office workers, they found that on average, an office worker is interrupted every 11 minutes!

It also took these distracted workers an average of 25 minutes to return to their initial tasks.

They concluded that people spend a mere three minutes working on a task before moving on to a different one. From Gloria Mark and Victor Gonzalez’s paper Constant, Constant, Multi-tasking Craziness: Managing Multiple Working Spheres:

“Informal interactions average four and a half minutes each. Further, people spend on the average somewhat more than two minutes on any use of electronic tool, application, or paper document before they switch to use another tool. The longest duration of tool use is with PCs, yet this averages only slightly more than three minutes at any one time.”

You are losing an insane amount of time everyday from constant distractions!

It’s crazy...

… your co-workers talking about unimportant matters
… your boss coming in to give you new work
… your email notification pops up every few minutes
… your phone rings constantly
… your assistant updates you on the latest event

You can either let these events take control of you, or you can turn things around and take control of your work.

Read on to find simple and practical strategies to deal with these types of interruptions… don’t get distracted and procrastinate on this.

These exceptionally simple strategies will help you save at least 1 hour a day.

How much is that amount of time worth to you?

Types of Office Interruptions that Prevent You From Overcoming Procrastination

Another distraction that keeps preventing you from overcoming procrastination is needless social time like chatting with co-workers on unimportant matters, or surfing the net.

Don’t use distractions as an excuse to procrastinate on important tasks. Below are five tips you can use to deal with this problem.

5 Electrifying Tips on How to Prevent Office Interruptions

If your co-worker comes in wanting to ask for a favor - You can simply ask whether it is absolutely important and urgent, if it’s not, tell your colleague politely that you will deal with it later in the day, AFTER you complete your most important work.

If you receive emails every few minutes - Turn your email notifications off. This is a huge time waster and makes you procrastinate on your work. Start overcoming procrastination on your work by avoiding checking email during work, instead, plan time to check your emails in bulk.

Remember, DO NOT check emails every 3 minutes, plan for it.

If your phone rings every few minutes - Turn your mobile phone to silent or turn it off. In the case of your office phone; Todd Duncan, who wrote the highly popular time management book Time Traps, recommends a ‘prevention’ method to reduce incoming phone calls. He mentions that you should not give your work digits to your friends, neither should you give your personal digits to customers or co-workers.

If your own personal habits are distracting you - Determine what type of tools is distracting you. If you happened to have a habit of surfing for your favorite recipe, or your favorite sports news, then TURN OFF your internet or resist the urge to surf the net! Focus on your most important work, do less important tasks AFTER your high priority tasks are done.

If you really need a break, plan for a break, take a REAL break. Surfing the net or engaging in chatter during work isn’t a real break. It can be done after work.

If you are constantly distracted because you keep looking for things during work - To deal with this problem and get the most out of your work, make sure you gather all necessary tools and material before you even bother starting with your work.

This simple, yet effective step will help clear your mind from distractions and make sure you can concentrate fully on the task at hand.

Take note of this 5 tips and stick it onto your office wall.

Remind yourself to stay focused. You will find more time in your life and start overcoming procrastination if you learn how to handle distractions well.