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Here's some free/low cost suggestions... 1. Listen to all of 10 hours of rain and thunder on Youtube whilst working every day. I get into a state of flow much
by richliss 6y ago
Here's some free/low cost suggestions...
1. Listen to all of 10 hours of rain and thunder on Youtube whilst working every day. I get into a state of flow much easier listening to that than practically anything else.
2. Text important people in your life to say you're offline until lunch and then turn your phone off and put it in a drawer.
3. Get a water jug so you don't have to keep getting up to fill your glass of water.
4. Create an alternative profile in Chrome or Firefox without your usual social profiles and add a site blocker blocking social media to it.
5. Print 4 rows of 10 boxes on a piece of paper and tick a box for every hour you successfully do work without distractions and put a cross for every hour that you are distracted. If you hit 40 hours without distractions give yourself a prize.
- distances 6y agoFor point 4, I'd go further and use a separate user account/computer. Nothing private on work account, not even email or a single news site. That has helped me draw the line easier: to procrastinate or answer any private message I have to either use my phone or boot up another computer. On the water jug I disagree though, I think it's good idea to get up from the chair every now and then even if only to fill the water glass.
- dairylee 6y agoI'd personally skip point 3. Refilling my glass is a perfect way to remember to take regular breaks to get away from my desk for a few minutes.