It is so easy to get distracted at work whether it's your cell phone, someone
dropping by your desk or you just not wanting to do a particular task, so guess
what, you're wandering. Being distracted at work has some dire consequences on
our productivity so in this video I'm going to teach you how not to get
distracted at work. Now, in order to help you with this, understanding some
mindfulness techniques is a great way to ground yourself and ensure that you are
focused. Stay tuned to the end of this video and I'm gonna share with you a
link on how to do just that. Hi, if you're new here, welcome, my name is
Adriana Girdler and I'm a productivity specialist. I love this
quote by Paul Meyer, "Productivity is not an accident, it's always a result of
commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focus effort." So today I'm
going to show you how to do just that by teaching you how not to get distracted
at work. Work with productive people. Whoa, Adriana,
I don't have a choice with who I work with, whoa, whoa, whoa, I get it, alright?
There are times on projects and sometimes with our own teams that we
can't choose whom we want to work with and maybe some of those people aren't
that productive however you do have choice with with you with who you hang
out with and just as the old adage goes that even what our parents used to tell
us when we were much younger, who you hang around with is a reflection on you
so at work find people who are really productive, who are go-getters, who are
looking towards achieving goals, who get things done and are highly regarded at
work. Those are the people you want to hang out with because they're gonna rub
off on you which is really cool, you're gonna learn some cool things too and
then that gives you the ability to really understand and maybe pick up with
some other techniques on how to be productive and not distracted at work.
Write it down. How many times has this ever happened to you, you're busy doing
something and then a flood of things go into your head about, oh my goodness,
I have to do this, send this email, make this call! Why? Because we think we have
the ability to keep all that information in our head. I promise you, the more you
write down and can sort of write it and forget it, it allows you to focus on the
things that you need to do so there's a couple techniques you can do for this.
I'm a big believer in planning, so organize yourself
accordingly, whether that's electronic tool or something as very old-fashioned
as a notebook, whatever works for you, whenever you get some information, write
it out immediately and then once at the end of the day you can integrate
whatever you wrote down of your to do's into your overall schedule and plan. It
makes a huge difference, you don't want to forget stuff and we can get
distracted quite easily with conversations and meetings that that
important thing we were supposed to take away, we forgot to do. Has that ever
happened to you? Don't ever let that happen again,
write it down. Have you ever forgotten some important information because you
were distracted at work? Share with me your story in the comment below - write it
down now before you forget! Let people know. Let people know that you're just
not going to be available. A lot of times you get higher up in positions or you
were within a project or you have a major deliverable, you're going to get
asked questions all the time, you may be interrupted. That has a big issue on
productivity and flow so what you want to do in order to not be distracted by
those things is you have to let people know that you need some time. Block off
time in order to get work done. So, this is what I do with my team. I come in, I go,
Team ,how you doing? I need a few hours in order to get this report done for the
client, do you have any questions for me? Anything that we need to talk about?
Usually there's a few, they have a few questions and I can answer them right
away and then usually what my team does is, when you're done Adriana, can we sit
down and chat about this? So it allows them to know at some point we are
gonna chat, but allows me the time that I need, and what's more important is I also
put my power hour on my door so they know not to interrupt me, so if you want
one of these babies I highly recommend it, I'm gonna have it in the link below
so you can check it out. But, let people know when you need a block of time as to
not be distracted. Have a vision for a reason. I am a big believer in vision
statements, particularly personal vision statements, in fact here is mine,
absolutely love it, if you're interested in this I'm gonna give you a link that
you can check out some other videos and how to actually do this. It's pretty cool,
but the reason why I'm a big believer in this is it's really easy to get
distracted and go down paths that leave you nowhere, right? We've heard that adage
of people down the road, they're in a career
and all of a sudden they go, what am i doing? I don't want to do this anymore.
Don't be one of those people, have a plan and that plan and your path is your
vision statement it guides you, you have it everywhere. I have mine on mouse pads,
screen savers, I actually have it on canvas so whenever I need to make a
decision or just to remind myself who am I, what am I about and how do I want to
achieve things in life, I look at my vision, a beautiful way to keep on point
and not get distracted. Come back to the hard question. It's interesting because
with this particular one some would say, shouldn't you do the hardest things
first? You hear that saying, eat the frog, which is, do the most difficult things
first, but sometimes you don't have that option and what I mean by that is you
may have chosen do a report and you're in the midst of going through it and
then you come across something really difficult and you don't know how to
answer it, so what sometimes happens is because we don't know how to answer it
we get very distracted and we were on such a roll before that we've lost it so
what I want you to do is skip it, you don't have to have all your answers when
you're creating documents or creating anything in general you just have to get
through it. You can always go back to it. So you don't have to solve a problem
immediately, you can always come back, now if it is critical that you need to have
the answer right there then, by all means check in with whomever you have to check
in with in order to get the answer but if you can skip it, do it, I
promise you, you'll be more productive and less distractions will come your way. So,
now that you know the steps on how to be less distracted at work, it is
important to understand mindfulness because this is some tools and
techniques are gonna ground you so that you can be extremely focused. You can get
this free checklist from the link below, please check it out. Please like this
video, subscribe to my channel and share with all the professionals that you know,
I would love to hear from you. If you have any other additional tips on how to
eliminate distractions at work, please write it in the comment below, but do it
quick or you may forget. Thank you so much, see at the next video.