Do you have trouble staying focused at work? Do you get distracted by the bings
and the dings and emails and people knocking on your door? Well in this video
I'm gonna teach you how to stay focused at work with some tried and true
techniques and if you stay tuned to the end I could have a free download where
you can learn 10 amazing productivity hacks within a checklist that you can
use to help you stay focused at work. Hi, if you're new here, welcome. My name is
Adriana Girdler, I'm a productivity expert with over 20-plus years in the
business. Staying focused at work matters so I'm gonna teach you some tried and
true techniques so pay attention, wink wink! Start early. If you're in the habit
of starting at a certain time, try to start at least fifteen to thirty minutes
earlier than that. It truly makes it different, that extra bit of time in the
morning dedicated to what you need to do and getting organized can really give
you a fresh start and keep you on track which is critical for staying focused.
Make a to-do list. Now, I want you actually to have several to-do lists, not
from several separate things but I want you to look at it from several different
perspectives. Your to-do list should be one that's long-term so you're looking
out like a month from now, even a couple months from now, you should have one that
is looking out a week from now and one that you need for today. By doing that
you can really analyze what is it that you have to do and you can start
planning in advance for things accordingly and dropping it into your
specific day for your to-do list. Now for today, what are you doing today? Pick
three core things that you're gonna work on, stuff that's really important to you
that's going to help you achieve your overall goals that you're trying to
achieve, not just stuff because it has a deadline associated with it.
So, really keep to that to-do list, be disciplined with your to-do list and
think broadly as well as focused for what you have for today.
To-do lists come in all shapes and sizes, some electronic, some are paper. Please
tell me what is that you use for your to-do list,
comment below. Confront blockages. So what I mean by this is, do the things that you
really don't want to be doing but are important and
get them done. This is why Facebook and Instagram are so popular when we have
something that we know we have to do but we're not excited about it but it's
really important still... What do we do? We tend to go on our social media, our
computers and we get a little distracted and that distracted can lead to not
just minutes of distractions, hours of distractions and then we really feel
pressure so I want you to focus on things that you have to get done, it is
really important, and confront those roadblocks that you yourself are putting
in front of you. Just get it done, out of the way. Eliminate distractions. Small little
things that we don't even think about like talking to a colleague, stopping
what we're doing, answering a phone or checking out an email actually all add
up in regards to us not having the time we need to get our work done let alone
anything on our to-do list. So it is really important that, and I usually call
these minor stoppages, that we eliminate them. What can you do for a minor
stoppage? Well, first and foremost, turn off that notification for email and for
your texts, those are extremely distracting, as well as give yourself the
power hour. That is something that you can put on your door or on your on your
cubicle to let people know, "I need an hour, please don't distract me!" You can
also do a power hour on your calendar by actually blocking out an hour of time
and honoring that to actually get your work done.
These small tried and true techniques make a big difference in you getting
your work accomplished and focusing and being productive at work. Recognize your
own work cycles. Whenever I do process improvements for organizations to make
them more productive, the first thing we do is benchmark. Well I want you to do
the same thing for yourself. Understand how you work. Are you a morning person, an
evening person, do you drain in the afternoon? Understanding what makes you
tick can really help you in order for you to plan your days accordingly so
that you can be more productive at work. Now that you know how to rev up your
productivity at work, I want you to check out this amazing checklist on amazing
hacks that are gonna help you even notch it up one more. Grab it from the
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with all the professionals that you know. Now it's your turn to share. What are
some productivity tips that you have to keep yourself focused at
work? Please comment below.