What to Do When People Interrupt You with Texts, Emails, and DM's If you let emails, DM's, and other notifications constantly interrupt you, then you'll never be able to truly focus on your work. Period - A quick tip to start the day right is to leave your phone in your room until at least 10 am if you work from home. If you don't, maybe you still check your phone each time you see a notification or a text. Put it on airplane mode when you need to truly focus on the task at hand. People underestimate uninterrupted time but boy, have I've been dealing with this issue lately with my son studying from home. He is 10 years old so you might think he would survive without the word mom for at least 5 minutes. Wrong! So I set my expectations: -When you see my cube timer running, I am working. Do not interrupt me unless it's an emergency. - All kids in the world think that the most insignificant thing is an emergency, therefore, I ask my son to write whatever he needs me to help him with, put it on my desk, and continue working on other stuff until my timer goes off. -When my timer goes off I do pay attention and solve whatever issue he might be having, after I work uninterrupted for 30 minutes. Rinse and repeat. -Another thing that helps is to try to maintain a routine even now that we are quarantined. We are not waking up at the usual time but even though we wake up later we do the same things as before, in the same order. All progress happens in a series of small stretches outside of your comfort zone so hold on to those small stretches and make the best of them. You will see progress but only if you are consistent. - Do you have any tips for people that work from home? (at Kissimmee, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CADaBfoli0U/?igshid=1xxwtbbzfdnsc
