6 ways to concentrate on the job

How to get rid of the excess of information in the modern world?

While working, we have to constantly be in touch - through computers and mobile devices. To understand why this is a problem, to help the analogy with a frog caught in a pot of water.

If the water temperature rises slowly enough, the frog will not notice this and cooked alive. So we feel the Internet: our productivity declines - gradually but steadily: like a frog in hot pot, we do not notice that we are dealing with an ever-increasing number of e-mail, instant messaging, websites, forums, social networks, video .. .

How to make technology work for you, not you to them? Do not read your mail? Do not go into the social networks? For some it is painful, if not impossible. Need more willpower.

1. Removal

Organizations can restrict or block access to network resources - but there is a risk that will be blocked access to useful information and essential services. Lock of the Internet resources only leads to inhibition of the innovation process: it is known that public health initiatives negatively affect the pace of technological development.

To develop the knowledge necessary to have a complete picture of what is happening online. On the Internet there are data that will be always in demand. You do not need to go too far: so, struggling with pornography on the Internet, even the regulators have made that quite modern filters block legitimate sites about sexual education.

Since time immemorial, people postpone business on the next day, and invent new ways to work less. But there is a means to fight distractions - even if only occasionally.

2. Throw a frog

Electronic devices are beginning to distract us from the work as soon as we sit down at a desk. Sometimes - even on the way to the workplace.

We open the mail, start conversation, answering questions and sharing pictures and videos. The more posts, the more sense of responsibility "must answer."

Recall frog. We always have things that we procrastinate and eventually forgotten in the most secluded corners of our memory. These cases should be executed. So why not start a new day with the completion of tasks, "throwing a frog?" Why not do important things, rather than to sit in social networks and read the irrelevant letters?

3. The method of "Tomato"

The essence of the popular method of "Tomato" - 25 minutes to work on one task, take a break and continue. It helps to concentrate time and resources on a single project. There is another way to not be distracted from the task: to write by hand or in an electronic task list application on a working day. Structure the working day is especially useful if your profession involves active in social networks, but also in other cases, it helps to carve out the time needed for other things.

4. Meditation

In recent years, techniques of meditation again attracted the attention of scientists and investigators. Programs such as developed by Andy Paddikombom application Headspace, are becoming increasingly popular - they allow you to focus on the problem and find its solution in a noisy and nervous office environment. Five minutes of meditation to help calm the mind and re-focus on the case. Several studies have confirmed the effectiveness of meditation techniques to improve performance - and get more enjoyment out of life.

5. Create an alternative calendar performance

Paper diaries still used, but less: their close many electronic applications. This is not always the best alternative - often a person is littered with unfinished business. It is better to create your own business calendar, preferably in an online format. Recording time is planning to spend on social networks and reading mail, chat with your family or holiday alone, you can better manage your time.

6. Self-control - start with yourself

It's time to give up things that do not go in your favor, whether it is food and drink or annoying social networks. It is necessary to realize that distracted from the pressing daily tasks properly - especially when it can be minimized.

Professor Steve Peters for a long time working with professional athletes of the highest category, helping them to control impulsive, emotional part of the brain (his term - "the brain of chimpanzees"). The best way - not to give her pulse, for example, read e-mail. But the main thing - to find a balance between the prohibition of unnecessary and resolution desired. It is not simple.

Some researchers have tried to fight the dependence on e-mail, blocking access to it at certain times. In Germany, scientists have advised companies to forbid calls and letters to employees after the end of their working day. For the office staff it's probably a good solution, but still more than those who work outside the office - for personal reasons and preferences or due to the specifics of the work itself.

Self - the best tool. For users of Google there is an application Inbox Pause, which collects incoming messages and delivers them to the specified intervals. There is a limit to emails on mobile devices - e-mail is updated only when you connect to a known working or home network, and the device does not give its owner the temptation to check email during a walk on weekends and holidays.

For all this to work, we need a willingness to change. Technology, as before, will invade our lives - business and private - and especially smartphones. Resist distractions, using any suitable method you can only willpower and self-discipline.