Online Distraction Diet - 6 Ways To Instantly Boost Your Online Productivity!

"I can´t get no...na na na... sa-t-i-s-f-a-t-i-on!" While the stones are rockin´it out of my macbook pro speakers I am thinking about my online productivity and I have to tell ya - it sucks!

I have to go on DISTRACTION DIET asap!!!

Ok...here is what I will do the next 7 days for a starter to loose some "unproductive online weight"

1. Stop checking my emails all the time. Two times a day should be enough
2. Same with statistics. It doesn´t help to check analytics several times a day. Once is enough
3. Too many tabs. When I´m on a task - I will close all the other tabs in my browser. They just make me loose focus and give me a welcome avocation when I need it
4. Links are devils work - at least when I try to read something important. Now I won´t click on them anymore while reading an important text
5. Music. I really love music but I´m getting emotional with certain songs and this can cause a change of state. This can be good - but it don´t have to. So no music at work for me
6. Since everything is "just" one click away online I believe a "do-it-now-or-never attitude" will help me to get things done or freakin forget them

I admit - it´s not the first time I do a distraction diet to boost my productivity. But it´s the first time I do it online. Let´s see how hard this will be - you can join me on this experiment to boost your online productivity too.

What are your biggest "online fet makers"?

Comments

[pittfall]

Focus is a very important aspect of productivity.

But, don't lose the links, they are not the devil's work. Try right clicking and opening in a new tab, but stay on your current reading. There are so many things that I would love to read at a later time (potential posts), but if I don't open them in a new tab (for reading later), I could loose the thought process that got me there in the first place.

The latest browsers, Firefox, IE 7 and Opera all lend themselves to attention deficit disorder. You just have to learn to control the urges.

I was looking into three other things when my reader let me know there was a new post on one of my subscriptions. We all fall into this.

Good Luck!

[Halil]

Hi Steli you are speaking true words man.
My biggest "online fet maker", beside nr. 1-6 of your post :-) is that I have even not started my blog.

Supercool post very digg.ble :-)

[PixelHead]

Everytime I get an email notification I need to check my email. I reduced this by having a priority email account that Customers or important peeps get. Everything else goes to an account that I check in the morning, and at night.
Writing down daily work goals is also a great way to help stay focused. Then having scheduled times to do all those activities. From 830am to 9am I am blogging...at 9am I switch to client work.

[Tammi]

I'm a freelance writer. Two big problems I have:
1. Friends and family think that I have all the time in the world because I'm home.
2. The thrill of the chase: I spend a lot of time looking at job postings when I really don't need them.

[Nirmal]

That was really useful info, but regarding checking mails only twice a day....I'm having doubt with that...:-)

[Steli Efti]

pittfall: thankx bro! And yes...links are not the devil´s work...but maybe the devil´s toys sometimes ;) Rock on bro!

Halil: thankx my friend - we´ll have to keep an eye on us...

PixelHead: thankx for sharing your distraction killing techniques bro - cool stuff

Tammi: I know exactly what you´re talkin about! The best thing I did was to buy a lock for my door - when I´m working the door is closed and locked. Hard but effective ;)

Nirmal: I admit I´m not quite there yet! Reduced it from 70x to something like 6x a day...but I´m still working on that :)

[exercise to burn belly fat]

I have no online productivity at all. Like you i read check my inbox too often.

[burn the fat feed the muscle]

Me too, it's a SAD diet!

[Shane]

Great Post. This post has given me a lot to think about as well..