A life of interruptions.

Previousely I wrote a post regarding productivity and real life.This post would be in parrallel with that post. If you havnt checked it, please check the "Productivity and Real Life" post by me.

As an industrial engineer, I do always care about productivity in life and always keep searching and looking around for books, articles and workshops on this topic. As was googling some stuff, I came across an ebook called: ”The Results Curve™: How to Manage Focused and Collaborative Time”, By Pierre Khawand. So I immidately downloaded it and read it. Amazing!!!

The ebook starts by elaborating on a graph, called ” The Results Curve”, which is about examining how our results while doing a task change with time. It discusses that we start doing a task and as the time passes by, we get more and more results, untill we get exusted or get interrupted and the results start to diminish.

The ebook proceeds by pointing out interruptions that came up while doing a task. And it is interesting that among all those external interruptions like e-mail, IM, phone calls, people dropping by, the author considers our ”wandering thoughts” the #1 interruption factor. As we got familiared with the interruptions and learned how to deal with them, finally the ebook is summerised by providing us with tools that help us know the interruptions factors and stay focused in our tasks and accomplishing more with less.

For all of you that need simple ways of geting organized , this ebook which is free to download is worth reading. The ebook is written in very simple words and is really smooth to follow, so dont worry and just get start it!

http://www.people-onthego.com/focused-versus-collaborative-time-free-eBook


M.M

STOP TALKING SO MUCH!!

I'm sure we all know people who talk too much but how do you handle it? Do you just tune them out or what? I guess, I'm not someone who is shy and quiet but not a motor mouth either. But there are some friends and relatives I know that it’s really get hard to get in a word when speaking with them. When hanging out and chatting with them there are times I feel like yelling, "Will you please JUST SHUT UP!”

Example 1: A relative: She will give you every single little detail on the most mundane things or will tell you things that you already know how to do. She talks and talks and talks and talks..... You can't break in to give your opinion. Oh gosh! Unbelievable! For instance, she can't just say there was a rude customer in front of her at the grocery store. She'll tell you just about everything that led up to her being in the grocery store-the time she woke up this morning, how she couldn't find her shoes, etc. Twenty minutes later she'll finally get to the story about the rude customer! And this is not only this, most of these stories are repetitive and you have already heard them several times and she is insisting on her ideas again and again…

Example 2: A girl friend: She'll call me up and starts talking about HER problems right away with barely asking me how I am doing. Thirty minutes to an hour later, after her lips are starting to turn blue, she ask to see how I'm doing, lol. Furthermore, she is a narcissist. Everything is about her and how great she is or great people think she is and lablala... . She is rather “boring and self-absorbed”.

I do like these people but gosh they are really annoying! All I feel like I ever say is "Yeah, uh-huh, ok" etc. I mean occasionally I get a few words in, hehe. How do you handle these talkative people?

M.M