A Productivity Plain
shoemoney
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3 min read
Yes, it is a great Nirvana song but I'm actually on a plane right now as I write this amazed at the amount of work I have gotten done. In the last couple days I while in San Jose I have not been monitoring my email and it's built up almost 180 unread emails. But amazingly I just finished responding to them all. Yup currently on my iPhone I have 180 Emails in the outbox on my that will start sending as soon as I land.
In addition to all those emails I also wrote some really good in depth blog posts, came up with some new ideas for ShoeMoney Tools, and various other stuff.
I am always so productive when on a plane. How can I recreate this to be more productive at the office?
I think a lot of it has to do with how much shit I have notifying me instantly of things. Like I have gmail notifier telling me when I get a new email, wordpress comment notifier telling me I got a new comment to moderate, Aol Instant messenger flashing and jumping up and down when I get a new message, facebook telling me one of many things, tweetdeck telling me someone replied to me on twitter, and many other things...
Here is a typical day. I get in the office about 8:30am. I buzz through my email when I see one from DK about his thinktank event I begin to respond when Tigh sends me a message on AIM asking me if I can meet with someone at Affiliate Summit East and while responding to Tigh I get a notification that there is 25 comments waiting to be approved on my blog. While approving the comments I follow some of the commentators links and one goes to this site that is pretty cool and I am wondering if they want to work together on something. So I start to write them a email when I get a notice from Facebook that I can't ignore. This girl that I had a HUGE crush on in high school (she never dated me cause I was to fat) just befriended me and sent me a message. So I goto facebook and friend her up and instantly and read her message. Come to find out she has packed on 200lbs, has 6 kids, been divorced 3 times and tells me she can't figure out why she keeps dating the wrong guys (whats up now biatch). While messaging her back David shoots me a message about this company that looks good for us to invest in. While writing David back my tweetdeck goes off from some punkass SEO who has never accomplished anything in his life talking smack because I said something that Matt Cutts might disagree with.
I start typing my response when I look up and realized I wasted the last 2 hours writing incomplete messages to DK, Tigh, my high school crush, dillsmack, some punkass SEO and still have many more comments to approve.
So this week I am going to whack all the notifiers.... Now I am not going to go all 4-hour work week and only check my email 2x a day but I for sure need to cut back on the 0-second notifications.
Its an amazing world we live in where communication happens so fast but it can be hard to be productive.
P.S. If you think you are the punkass SEO or the hot chick I went to high school with... you probably are.
I think a lot of it has to do with how much shit I have notifying me instantly of things. Like I have gmail notifier telling me when I get a new email, wordpress comment notifier telling me I got a new comment to moderate, Aol Instant messenger flashing and jumping up and down when I get a new message, facebook telling me one of many things, tweetdeck telling me someone replied to me on twitter, and many other things...
Here is a typical day. I get in the office about 8:30am. I buzz through my email when I see one from DK about his thinktank event I begin to respond when Tigh sends me a message on AIM asking me if I can meet with someone at Affiliate Summit East and while responding to Tigh I get a notification that there is 25 comments waiting to be approved on my blog. While approving the comments I follow some of the commentators links and one goes to this site that is pretty cool and I am wondering if they want to work together on something. So I start to write them a email when I get a notice from Facebook that I can't ignore. This girl that I had a HUGE crush on in high school (she never dated me cause I was to fat) just befriended me and sent me a message. So I goto facebook and friend her up and instantly and read her message. Come to find out she has packed on 200lbs, has 6 kids, been divorced 3 times and tells me she can't figure out why she keeps dating the wrong guys (whats up now biatch). While messaging her back David shoots me a message about this company that looks good for us to invest in. While writing David back my tweetdeck goes off from some punkass SEO who has never accomplished anything in his life talking smack because I said something that Matt Cutts might disagree with.
I start typing my response when I look up and realized I wasted the last 2 hours writing incomplete messages to DK, Tigh, my high school crush, dillsmack, some punkass SEO and still have many more comments to approve.
So this week I am going to whack all the notifiers.... Now I am not going to go all 4-hour work week and only check my email 2x a day but I for sure need to cut back on the 0-second notifications.
Its an amazing world we live in where communication happens so fast but it can be hard to be productive.
P.S. If you think you are the punkass SEO or the hot chick I went to high school with... you probably are.