18 ways to concentrate on your work

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Link: http://www.davecheong.com/2006/08/14/18-ways-to-stay-focused-at-work
Author: Dave Cheong
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I have worked in many places in the past few years. There is a project where even 80 people sit in an open place at the same time. In this environment, it is difficult to concentrate. Although my project is already relatively small, there are still many things that distract you from your work. So is there any way to minimize interference and attention?

There are 18 ways to concentrate on my work:

1. Write down daily tasks to plan your day
Nothing is more important than a task order placed next to it. When you write down what needs to be done that day, you can keep reminding you to focus on it.

2. Allocate a colleague to disturb you.
In a busy workplace, everyone keeps walking and talking. If your job role requires other members to communicate with you, try to allocate a time period for everyone to communicate with you. Let them know a certain time in a day. For example, you can be disturbed from two o'clock P.M. to, instead of being disturbed every ten minutes. In this way, you can actually do some work at other times.

3. Use time table
Previous ArticleArticle, I wrote about the benefits of using the schedule. Complete one thing within a limited period of time, such as 30 minutes, instead of doing one thing until it is completed. If the time is reached, the work may have been completed. If it is not completed, it may be several days after another time period is reallocated. In this way, you can keep your work fresh, instead of getting tired of doing one thing.

4. Set Email Filtering
If you spend a lot of time on planning and joint communication in front of a computer, you may need to process emails frequently. Set your email client to distinguish between what is important and what can be waited. In this way, you only need to process folders classified by project, priority, and content, instead of hundreds of unread emails.

5. Do not check private emails in the morning.
Checking for private emails in the morning is quite distracting, even if you have configured email filtering. Especially when your friends send you interesting articles, jokes, or video links on YouTube. If you are not careful, you may suddenly get stuck for several hours. When you start working, you do not check your personal emails. Check your personal email after you have completed some tasks or started to work. If you don't want to be distracted, wait until the work is complete and then reply.

6. Set the status of the Instant Messaging Software
If you do not want to be disturbed by using instant messaging, you can set it to offline or working, in this way, your friends or colleagues will send you emails or contact you when you are not busy.

7. Listen to appropriate music
Music is a good way to bring you into the working state. In addition, listening to music can protect you from printer and chat sound interference. However, it should be noted that, depending on the individual, some music is not suitable for work. For me, listening to music with many lyrics will interrupt my thinking at work.

8. Use headphones but turn off music
Some people prefer to be completely quiet at work. I think this is also determined by the type of work. If you do some rigorous planning or computing work, you may not be able to concentrate on music in your ears. In this case, you can wear headphones without music to shield the noise from the outside world.

9 fill your water bottle with water
For whatever reason, enough water is important to your health. Fill the water bottle with enough water from the beginning of the day instead of loading water every hour. In this way, you do not need to wait in line to fetch water, nor chat with people who fetch water.

10. Find a time that is best suited for repetitive and boring work.
No matter how you escape, you have to face boring or repetitive things. For these things, I found that it is best to do it at some time of the day. For example, I will not do these things at the beginning of the day, and I will do some work that requires some brains. I often put repetitive work at the end of a day when I am tired.

11 bring your lunch to your desk
I do not recommend that you do this every day, but it is helpful to have lunch at your desk if you need to concentrate and complete the task before a deadline. I found that when I had lunch at my desk, my lunch break would be shorter, or I could check several emails while I was eating. After I finish eating, I can go back to work.

12 do not make a private call for a long time
Most people can distinguish between work and life (or try to distinguish between work and life ). We all hope that our personal time will not be affected by work. And vice versa. Try to limit the time spent doing personal things at work, otherwise it will distract your attention and work motivation. You certainly don't want to go out on weekends when you need to do something important.

13. Clean up your desktop
Your desktop may only be described as chaotic. It is not a bad thing if you don't need to spend too much time finding what you need. However, if you cannot quickly find what you want, I suggest you clean up your desktop. This is not to say that you want to make this table have nothing, but that you can get it if you need something. For example, when you need a place to write, it is very helpful to put the pen and paper in a place that you can easily get.

14. Find a good chair.
If you sit at the desk for a few hours (I believe you need this), you will find how helpful a good chair is. I found it difficult to concentrate on my neck and back when my desk and chair were too sour. A good chair can avoid this problem, so that you will not be interrupted during long working hours due to physical discomfort.

15. Use shortcuts on the desktop
If you find that using your computer to do the same thing more than once a day, you will find that doing so can be much less repetitive. If you find that the folder of a project requires constant access, try to add a shortcut so that you can click in at once without opening the folder one by one.

16. disable unnecessaryProgram
As a software engineer, I use programs that are important to my work. But in many cases, I only need to open a few programs at the same time. Open the programs you need, and do not always press Alt-tab to switch constantly so that the computer can find the programs you want. Close useless programs. For example, if you have opened a file and no longer need a search tool, you can close it. Because there is no reason to open it.

17 The time limit on Digg, delicious, news websites, and blogs
I don't need to talk too much about this. You need to know the number of sites on the Internet. Digg, delicious, news sites, and blogs are good on the Internet, but they will distract you when you need to work. Try to restrict the time of these sites during working hours. If you really want to, during lunch break. Don't move your thumb every few minutes you want to get online.

18. Change your ideas and make your work interesting
It is very difficult for me to concentrate on what I don't like. In most cases, nothing can be done. However, you should also note the fact that the feeling of work is controllable. My final suggestion is to change your perspective and regard work as a game. Attention is not concentrated, because there are no challenges, so make things interesting.

I hope these suggestions will make you more focused and creative at work.
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