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

Productivity and Real Life

I got absolutely nothing done today - no work at all. Why? Umm, basically because personal crises popped up. Nothing too serious, nothing very new, just everyday stuff obsessed me and ruined my day. I was stuck into a black hole. Although I had some stuff on my To-Do-List for my day, but it didn’t work and it was a totally unproductive day (since now). I guess all of us have days like that. But the question is that how to remain productive in spite of personal crises?

Well I am going to try this now and at least making the rest of my day productive. I gonna start with one of the tasks, set a time for myself and tell myself that: “I'll think about the other obsession at 7pm, but not now” and force myself not to get distracted by anything or any thoughts. I am gonna practice to concentrate on accomplishing X before thinking about Y. I'm not sure how well this will work, but it's something that I'm going to try. :D


What do you do to remain productive even when your personal life feels like it is falling apart? How do you remember that this too will pass and how do you keep the work day from slipping away from you?

Hope you all are having a lovely happy productive friday. :D


M.M