Comments on: How to Audit Your Gadgets For Focus http://howtogetfocused.com/chapters/how-to-audit-your-gadgets-for-focus/ Get Focused in an Age of Distraction Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Getting and Staying Focused | Plugin.com http://howtogetfocused.com/chapters/how-to-audit-your-gadgets-for-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-853 Getting and Staying Focused | Plugin.com Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:45:14 +0000 http://howtogetfocused.com/?p=487#comment-853 [...] How to Audit Your Gadgets for Focus is a chapter you may not like, because it makes you take a look at your gadgets, figuring out which ones are useful—and which aren’t. And that, according to Scheper’s way of looking at things, is most of them. [...] [...] How to Audit Your Gadgets for Focus is a chapter you may not like, because it makes you take a look at your gadgets, figuring out which ones are useful—and which aren’t. And that, according to Scheper’s way of looking at things, is most of them. [...]

]]> By: Bob http://howtogetfocused.com/chapters/how-to-audit-your-gadgets-for-focus/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Bob Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:51:43 +0000 http://howtogetfocused.com/?p=487#comment-393 The idea of dumping gadgets that may expose you to distractions is a good one. But I think, it's even more important to learn how to keep the gadgets you need and use from distracting you. On your computer (my MacBook), one very important thing is to stop it from reminding you of the emails or messages you just got. Decide yourself, when to go to your inbox. (Did you ever whitness a presentation, where that bubble came up with a mail preview like "Yeah Paul, you're right, our boss is a jerk, but..."?) Don't use your mobile phone (my iPhone) as a distraction. Don't feel like beeing cut off from the world, when auto-check for emails is disabled and the ringer is set to silent. To get focused, one of the most important things is to learn how to switch things off - (on) your computer, (on) your mobile phone, your tv, your radio,... If someone's in your office, there are little phone calls and definitely no emails or messages more important than the person standing vis-à-vis from you. And by the way: Distraction is not that bad. Sometimes you need a short distraction (pause) to help you in staying focused on your main goal. That's what makes the pomodoro technique successful. The idea of dumping gadgets that may expose you to distractions is a good one. But I think, it’s even more important to learn how to keep the gadgets you need and use from distracting you.

On your computer (my MacBook), one very important thing is to stop it from reminding you of the emails or messages you just got. Decide yourself, when to go to your inbox. (Did you ever whitness a presentation, where that bubble came up with a mail preview like “Yeah Paul, you’re right, our boss is a jerk, but…”?)

Don’t use your mobile phone (my iPhone) as a distraction. Don’t feel like beeing cut off from the world, when auto-check for emails is disabled and the ringer is set to silent.

To get focused, one of the most important things is to learn how to switch things off – (on) your computer, (on) your mobile phone, your tv, your radio,…

If someone’s in your office, there are little phone calls and definitely no emails or messages more important than the person standing vis-à-vis from you.

And by the way: Distraction is not that bad. Sometimes you need a short distraction (pause) to help you in staying focused on your main goal. That’s what makes the pomodoro technique successful.

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