Time Management #4: Your Work Space Contributes Greatly to Your Focus...
In the previous post in our series of articles about time management, we discussed the element of mind.
As we said before, the knowledge of time management revolves around three primary factors; mind, space, and time. Today, we are going to talk about space and how it contributes to our focus when performing a task.
When it comes to time management, you need to envision an imaginary enemy. The enemy that wants nothing more than to fashion your character in a way that only procrastinates and wastes time when you he or she doesn’t have any.
But this enemy, with all its illusions, is a puny and cheap adversary, for the only weapon that it can use against you is distraction.
Distractions are the greatest enemies of time. In our previous blog regarding the concept of mind in time management, we labelled these distractions of the mind as ‘gathering points’ and bottlenecks that compel you to throw away your most urgent and imminent thought in the favor of other unimportant and unnecessary bubbles of imagination.
When we are talking about distractions, perhaps the most vivid and palpable of them all is the space surrounding us. Take a closer look at the place where you work. It might be an office in your company’s headquarters. It might be a personal room in your house. Or it might be both.
When you work or sit down to do something, you are not really alone. Your mind is doing the math and the imagination in your head to perform the task, all the while observing your surrounding and its objects in an inadvertent process.
Think about all those objects that are always there with you when you are working in your work space. Think about the many times that they have distracted you and cost you your time and efficiency.
If your work space is contributing to your deceptive distractions rather than helping you focus on the task at hand, then you need to change it as soon as possible.
Change is hard. Adapting to that change even harder. But if you are willing to get results, you need to sacrifice that loss of comfort to achieve that result. In this case, that something is the willingness to actually make a change in your work space to increase your efficiency.
The next time you sit to work, be mindful of your surrounding space. Be mindful of the distractions that come your way. Identify the source of those distractions, and eliminate them immediately.
For example, if I were working on an important documentary about nature, I would decorate my surroundings with objects, thoughts, and pictures that would give me new creative ideas about this subject, or at the very least prevent my mind from leaving the ambiance of that world around which my work forms.
If your smartphone is contributing to these distractions, then your smartphone is an object that should not remain in the environment where you work. If your desk or your shelves are untidy, and that untidiness is contributing to your constant distractions, then you should immediately decide on putting everything in its order.
All of this conversely contributes to your focus and the eventual increase of your attention to what you should actually be doing, and not alien thoughts that have no place where and when you work.
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The decency and relatability of your work space is the next step towards your journey in time management.
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that kind of community what you build is amazing to me, you are a admirable man.
I love when people write about personal development, while most of the rules are known to everyone, we just need a kick from someone like you :)
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@shirophantomhive, thank you very much for your sweet and kind words, but that is exactly what I try to do every day since I started on steemit. Now I can start to see this community grow and I know it can grow more. I'm glad to see many voting in others and engaged in complementing with meaningful comments to further extend this Positive Mindest. I'm sure I'm building a community of people who already have their positive Mindset and we're also changing the Mindeset of many and soon I'll start posting many things that will be more straightforward about what we actually do so that people achieve their goals and grow every day.
Regards
Very good and motivated article. It inspired me a lot. Keep publishing more articles related to same. Thanks .
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This factor of time management is almost known to everyone but it's not that easy to put it in practice.
It's a great reminder to us in how to be focused and productive in having a distraction-free and conducive working space.
A great help also for those who are starting to learn how to manage their time.
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Sometimes I tend to distract easily. Especially when I'm doing something that I do not like ... and I try to take away from me the things that can distract me but sometimes I fail. :(
Greetings of the day @chbartist
I read the previous article about time management where you discussed about distractions. That was really helpful article. Today's blog is in continuation of the previous one which is highly appreciated by me because it is very helpful to know about distractions.
The place where we work really effect us. If the environment is not familiar or sutable according to work. Then the place is really a big distractions. To avoid this we have to choose familiar place which is s related to our work. So out mind don't get distracted.
Thanks for this helpful article about time management.
Regards,
@ajks
@chbartist sir!
The most important factor for time management is how we set goals and how to achieve them. Most of us determine long-term goals. But when the time comes to fulfill the goal, they get distracted by their path and go astray from their goal. That's why we should manage the timely management of the day, due to which the day-to-day work will be complicated on the same day and move on to the next goal.
The first staircase of change is the heart. The second is our brain. The increase in the positive direction of these two changes the fate itself.
🙏🙏I request you to accept as member of our community to my frnd @crypto.piotr and add him community list so that he can find notification.
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Hi @certain
Great comment. I fully agree that it's super difficult to stick to long-term goals.
I tend to write them down and re-write every 2-3 days. So my goals would haunt me even when I sleep :)
ps. Ive noticed that you're very responsive and supportive so I will delegate 40SP to you tomorrow. Im trying to focus on helping those who blog about crypto but Im impressed with your attitude here and I will be happy to support you :)
Yours
Piotr
Surround yourself with the elements of peace and clarity to provide the ability to engage with your mind in a better state. The reality is that this becomes very difficult as the presence of distractions are always present but if you do it with purpose, it could be achieved.
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That aint looking like a workspace, looks more like an infinite paper black hole ....
@chbartist Thanks to write such type of blog. On time management we can say "time management is life management ". We can't ignore it tha distraction is main enemy of success but I can't if we make a mindset towards our. Goal then no can stop us . If anyone can stop your success path that is only you and only you. "I can ..I will"
@ankitjnv
Hi @chbartist thanks for sharing. Yes is good to everyone of us to manage our time because time is something that is very tangible .