Success Tips for a Distracted World (Part 2 of 2)

24 success tips to help you achieve greater success in a busy and distracted world.

Helping you achieve success in a distracted world.

Helping you achieve success in a distracted world. 24 success tips to help you achieve greater success in a busy and distracted world. (Part two of two.)

Rest.

Forget hustle. Doing less can be more productive. (Read that again.) Working at constant full power is ultimately damaging to your productivity, mental health, and physical wellbeing.

Develop a work support structure.

What support structures do you have? This might be a scheduled chat, a packed lunch, fresh flowers on the desk, a walk at lunchtime, asking for help, delegating. If you don’t have a support structure… start building one.

Start a slow journey to re-wire your brain.

Begin a journey to be okay with resisting distractions. Turn off the external stimuli. If only for a little bit of a time, take back this time for you. Every day you get to decide and take a step on your own personal re-wire.

Set enough time for the complex stuff.

This is easy to say and harder to do. High achievers can often underestimate how much time it can take for a task or project. Driven on by optimism, tasks then turn to heavy burdens and frustrations, which can lead to distractions.

There is always a new email, tool, or app.

What’s the rush? Ask if you need to react or respond to everything immediately. You can survive disconnected. Could you turn off the wifi and try it? It might surprise you.

How you move the dial and what you are working on are not always the same.

Learning to achieve success in a noisy, distracted, always-on world is a superpower.

Social media drives an increase in distraction.

Don’t become dependent on the algorithmic stimuli. Consider that three to five companies impact how millions of people worldwide spend their attention.

A few basics.

• Turn off notifications.
• Set daily work goals.
• Take breaks.
• Take lunch.
• Take holidays.
• Use a schedule.

Let the technology work for you.

Hard to remind ourselves of this, but technology is supposed to be there to make life easier. Is technology helping you? How can you better use the technology to be more productive? How can you re-work how you use certain technologies?

Use an online time/application tracker.

Measure what you are doing throughout your workday, or simply keep a pen and paper next to you and record how much time you spend on each activity. This is the first step to implementing a better way of working.

Don’t try to multitask so much.

Having a lot of open tasks all at the same time can be overwhelming. While a person might have a number of books they are reading, having a lot of tasks open and moving between them is counterproductive. It can also be draining.

Thank you for reading part two. You can read part one here.

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