How to deal with Interruption?

 

If we are doing a job that needs full focus, and again and again, we get disturbed by our colleagues/family… So that we can’t continue with our job…

Good news that the problem is quite common… 

After research, an interruption in our work-flow can cost us 25 minutes…when we need uninterrupted time to think…  and even 25% of these tasks can’t be resolved on the same day!

Solution: Don’t overthink? 

(jokes must be) 

The programmers who are designing computer software, even have to cope with an interruption in their work-flow up to every 3 minutes… 

The problem is: 

Not so much the interruption…but that we lose our control over our focus… 

There was a research about 2 groups working under full focus. The first group gets disturbed on random through a loud noise.

The second group gets also disturbed on random through loud noise, but they can switch off this noise…  

Results: The second group could get 5 times more things done than the first group… EVEN the first group didn’t use the switch to turn off the noise!

If we have a choice, our ego will comply much easier!

I was grown up in a big family (my mother got 5 kids in 3 years) and when somebody interrupted me with the things that I was doing, I got upset… 

After some time, I learned to focus so much on the things that I was doing, that nobody could stop me, and even I could not recognize that my siblings were demanding something from me… I just switched them from inside off… Because I want to do the stuff…

I have written a lot of my books in noisy hotel lobbies… 

Can you see the point?

If we give our jobs the highest priority and everything else is just a distraction… And distraction we can switch off.

It is not a miracle that IT-professionals have the highest focus and can deal even with an interruption every 3 minutes… 

If your focus is to socialize with people, you don’t need and don’t have that focus.

Solution 2 (no joke)

You give your colleagues a manual about how to deal with you under construction!

Politeness wins:

Can I interrupt you? 

(You don’t put on your desk a gun. Because this is threatening…) 

You replay: 

Yes

Not right now!

Wait a minute!

When it is urgent to interrupt you.

Sorry, please I need urgently something… 

(And then you look in your drawer for the gun… )

Okay, if it must be, then I can help you….  

When you are working in a corporation. 

Ask to do a big task at home.

 

Or stick a paper on your room or in front of your desk (if this is possible in your firm), that you want to work for 1.5 hours (no interruption) from XX:00 to YY:00 and then you are available for XX minutes… And put off your phone… 

My Video: How to deal with Interruption? https://youtu.be/ZsM-roC4M9I

My Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.B/How-to-deal-with-Interruption.mp3