Attack Your Day!: Before It Attacks You by Mark Woods & Trapper Woods

Author:Mark Woods & Trapper Woods [Woods, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2012-10-09T14:00:00+00:00

You First

We talked in Chapter 2, “Color Your Choices: The Art of Choosing and Refusing,” about learning to say no, or what we call strengthening our “no muscle.” Interestingly, the first person we need to get good at saying no to is ourself. We are often our own worst enemy. We often break our focus for what are merely time-wasting activities. We identified time-wasters earlier as gray activities.

Developing the ability to say no to unnecessary interruptions and distraction activities is critical to being productive. Notice we said unnecessary. The last thing you would ever want to do is get rid of all of your interrupting activities. Some interruptions are essential, job-related, and necessary. We need to eliminate the ones that aren’t necessary—the ones that are the true time-wasters.

The inability to say no to interruptions and distractions breaks our focus. To stay focused, all you need is the skill and will to say no and mean it.

Start learning to focus by taking a personal inventory of the negative activities that cause you to break your focus. Look carefully over the following list of self-imposed, internally motivated focus breakers, and put a check mark by the ones you do that break your ability to stay focused.

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