All of us know we have this bad habit – the tickling
sensation in the left hand to press to press Alt+Tab to switch from mail to messenger to browser to games to
twitter to Face book and back to work. This stringent urge to “browse just a
little time” in between your daily work tasks; to peak at the Twitter or
YouTube seems like nothing is important enough to prevent you from page
surfing.
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Have you ever thought this funny habits is your
time wasters – enemy no 1. First of
all, remember, the Internet is a tool. Internet is useful tool, but a tool none
the less, not life-line. Whenever you
feel crowded by the new blog posts alerts, the instant messages or email in
your inbox, do what you’d do with any other annoying tool. Take control. Ignore
it. Let it wait.
During work institute a discipline called “Offline
period”, the time limit is an hour or two depending upon the project you are
on. Disconnect your “Wi-Fi” connection. This is time od your offline work –
like designing, working on Excel sheet, drafting sales plan etc. In between the
project or assignment require a on-line information make a note of it and move
to the next item. Restrain yourself no matter what, only go back online after
an hour or two.
The result or the output will be a real surprise
how much of work is cleared with this bit of volunteer offline time.
No @Twitter
or @Face Book or @Whatsapp. Nothing is more annoying than an SMS cutting into
your flow. While it’s nice to learn that your friend has put a new photo on
Face Book, it’s nothing you want to know while doing your job.
How annoying you would feel “Did you finish the Power Point Presentation – for Monday morning
meeting” – A message in the middle of a movie or cricket match. Feel the
same way to the SMS “Hai last night,
extra round of whiskey made me bonkar”.
Disable sound alerts and popups. You’re much too familiar with it – you were just getting “in the flow”,
really focusing on the job and starting to get things done, when an SMI alert
on your smart phone or window pops up with about your tweet is mentioned and
interrupts you. First thing you should do when installing an IM program is to
disable the alert notifications – sure they seem useful, but
they aren’t. Don’t think this Popups,
alerts ALLOWS you to answer immediately;
in fact it FORCES you to.
Now have we discovered what the main online time wasters are? You were shocked, just like me, at the amount
of involuntary time you spend daily, just browsing around. What can you do?
Clearly the net has incredible benefits, but is this one of
it's weaknesses? And if so what are the specific repercussions? I obviously
don't have the answer here, but it seems to me that understanding the impact of
this attention deficit is perhaps one of the most important philosophical
questions of our time. What do you think?
Internet Attention Deficit Disorder is
the productivity killer affecting most office workers today.
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Chapter 7 diagnoses our addiction
to email, social media, and anything with a screen. I said “our addiction.”
Okay, I mean “my.” DeYoung describes
the impulse to constantly pick up the smartphone and check the email or the
Twitter feed. Just this week I was sitting in the back row of a meeting at
church next to a fellow elder. I noticed he and I kept looking down at our
phones, as if anything urgent was going to drop into our inboxes Sunday night
at 9 p.m. Pathetic. DeYoung doesn’t
condemn technology like a Luddite. He’s on the grid. But he rightly offers a
healthy watchfulness. And 23 more names who need this book just popped into my
head. Buy &Read: Crazy Busy:
Focused
work is your insurance, constant, whereas Reimbursement compensation is dynamic.
Nature of work and payment are subject
to change. The internet tool cannot
guarantee reimbursement for any procedure associated with overuse or misuse.
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