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January 24, 2005
Kicking the habit
One of the growing problems I find when trying to concentrate on what I really need to do are the number of distractions that litter my PC. So, today I made the following changes:
I changed my email procedure so that I now have to explicitly send and receive my email manually. This is instead of it being done automatically every 5 minutes which causes a little "you have email" popup to appear.
I removed the Bloglines notifier. This was a hard decision to make because I'm a Bloglines junkie. I need to switch to a "check Bloglines when you really have time" mode instead of the notifier trying to catch my attention like some drug-dealer (pssst...somebody blogged something ...just a quick look to see what's new....it won't take long....no harm done....pssstt).
More to follow.
Posted by Matthew at January 24, 2005 12:51 PM
Comments
I have you in my Bloglines feed. So, theoretically you are contributing to my lack of productivity.
Just kidding, of course :-)
Seriously, I have adopted a similar pattern. I think I related my experience on my weblog and told about my search of the holy grail of productivity (read, I'm dissecting every article and book on productivity and performance that I can find).
Interesting to see that many people have adopted a similar strategy.
Posted by: Eddy Young at January 28, 2005 11:57 PM