Comments on: Staying Busy Keeping You Down? 4 Tips To Reclaim Your Day http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day Rewrite the Rules Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Corbett http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day#comment-2310 Corbett Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:50:32 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=4351#comment-2310 You can get work done "from" the beach, but "on" the beach I have yet to achieve. Sun, wind, sand and surf are difficult coworkers. You can get work done “from” the beach, but “on” the beach I have yet to achieve. Sun, wind, sand and surf are difficult coworkers.

]]> By: Betsy Talbot http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day#comment-2309 Betsy Talbot Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:57:08 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=4351#comment-2309 It is so easy to stay busy and never get anything done, isn't it? My goals are to always exercise before I sit down to the computer, and I am ruthless about the emails I get. If I don't think a newsletter is important enough to read within 48 hours of getting it, I unsubscribe (and I use the same test for the content in my own newsletter - would I be excited to read it?). I do pretty good on those two things, but Twitter and Facebook and blog reading can totally throw me off the map. I've just downloaded a program for Mac called Freedom - you can input a time period which will prevent you from connecting to your network so you won't spend too much time surfing instead of writing/working. Step one is to install the program. I have yet to pull the trigger and actually use it. Baby steps, baby steps. It is so easy to stay busy and never get anything done, isn’t it?

My goals are to always exercise before I sit down to the computer, and I am ruthless about the emails I get. If I don’t think a newsletter is important enough to read within 48 hours of getting it, I unsubscribe (and I use the same test for the content in my own newsletter – would I be excited to read it?).

I do pretty good on those two things, but Twitter and Facebook and blog reading can totally throw me off the map. I’ve just downloaded a program for Mac called Freedom – you can input a time period which will prevent you from connecting to your network so you won’t spend too much time surfing instead of writing/working. Step one is to install the program. I have yet to pull the trigger and actually use it.

Baby steps, baby steps.

]]> By: Annabel Candy, Get In the Hot Spot http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day#comment-2308 Annabel Candy, Get In the Hot Spot Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:23:09 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=4351#comment-2308 Yes, I have noticed how time whizzes by:) I think the Internet will be the makingo of many and the downfall of even more! Trying hard to reduce email checking by keeping gmail firmly shut. I find netvibes useful for maintaining the to do list, checking all the blogs I want to read with the reader and also seeing what's up on Twitter. It really helps to have a few stock emails for certain situations you can just personalise at the beginning and/or end. And definitelhy remember you don't have to answer the phone when it rings:) Keep up the great writing! Yes, I have noticed how time whizzes by:) I think the Internet will be the makingo of many and the downfall of even more! Trying hard to reduce email checking by keeping gmail firmly shut. I find netvibes useful for maintaining the to do list, checking all the blogs I want to read with the reader and also seeing what’s up on Twitter. It really helps to have a few stock emails for certain situations you can just personalise at the beginning and/or end. And definitelhy remember you don’t have to answer the phone when it rings:)

Keep up the great writing!

]]> By: Hugh http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day#comment-2307 Hugh Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:35:13 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=4351#comment-2307 Yes I too am guilty of wasting hours surfing the net or doing something else. Every time I sit down at my computer, I make a list (mental or written) of just 3-4 things that I want to accomplish in that "computer session". Having at least a guideline in mind keeps me from wandering aimlessly around the Net. At the end of a day, I know how much I've accomplished not necessarily by looking at my to-do list, but by how I feel. I know when I was productive vs. wasting time. It's really a bad feeling to have been busy all day but have achieved nothing of note. Yes I too am guilty of wasting hours surfing the net or doing something else. Every time I sit down at my computer, I make a list (mental or written) of just 3-4 things that I want to accomplish in that “computer session”. Having at least a guideline in mind keeps me from wandering aimlessly around the Net. At the end of a day, I know how much I’ve accomplished not necessarily by looking at my to-do list, but by how I feel. I know when I was productive vs. wasting time. It’s really a bad feeling to have been busy all day but have achieved nothing of note.

]]> By: Gregor Colnik http://www.corbettbarr.com/staying-busy-keeping-you-down-4-tips-to-reclaim-your-day#comment-2306 Gregor Colnik Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:14:27 +0000 http://www.freepursuits.com/?p=4351#comment-2306 Try changing working hours. You can't know when you're most productive if you don't try. Sometimes i manage to do a whole day of work in barely few hours in late night hours, when everyone is sleeping... Aslo try to change the working place, if possible. I have yet to try and do some work on my laptop from the beach :) Try changing working hours.
You can’t know when you’re most productive if you don’t try. Sometimes i manage to do a whole day of work in barely few hours in late night hours, when everyone is sleeping…

Aslo try to change the working place, if possible.
I have yet to try and do some work on my laptop from the beach :)

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