Modern world- Curse of distractions!

As I'm sitting in my office to concentrate to build or write or even develop something, I just can't do it. It's too much noisy out here.

Sometime, it's just desk phone or my mobile or it might be even Outlook email popup or neighbors phone or heated customer arguments on phone or vendors calling for payments or stubborn supplier looking to get RFIs or my own team members or etc etc...It's too much!

And on the top of it my own urges of Internet surfing & checking emails...Too bad to cope up!

Have you ever faced the difficulty in coping distractions of all sorts at workplace?

Some of the above in list of distractors can be clearly avoided, but it needs practice. I have decided to put my phone on silent and remove the receiver off the desk phone while concentrating on something important.

Just try this for a week-

1. Login to your pc/laptop early morning. Download all emails in Outlook & check all those in one shot without getting up from place. Close Outlook.
2. Then check all social emails etc. Log off.
3. Prepare the task list with priorities.
4. Start shooting them from topmost to bottom.
5. After shooting at least top 3-4 tasks from list, just re-open outlook & revert back.
6. Check if there's something new otherwise close Outlook again.
7. Repeat it till you clear everything on task list, possibly.

Once you are done (I hope with all items), you are free to utilize your time the way you want.

But in most cases, it doesn't happen actually in that way. You either have to allocate the tasks to someone & wait till the revert comes from allocatee. That's fine. Just don't forget to follow up with those whom you allocated the tasks.

If tasks become unmanageable allocate them to team members. Don't burden yourself. Or don't get obsessed with work.

Be smart & deliver! That's key!

Things to learn from IRCTC!

Wow! What a frustrating afternoon today! I just can't bear it anymore.

For past 2-3 hours I have been trying to book a ticket to travel to Mumbai by all means possible(?), but the transaction couldn't be completed somehow.

Frustration apart, let's learn to be patient first. It's not easy to book a ticket here.

What's now? I should wait for some more time possibly but vacant seats won't wait for me. If it's that urgent then I should go to ticket counter & book it directly. But it won't be possible at present.

IRCTC has always taught me to be patient. In a hyper speed blazing fast world, it reminds me the old theory that resources hogging or shared resources would at the end might not deliver the results all the time. Somewhere you would reach a point beyond which performance isn't guaranteed.

Let's be more patient! Let's hope I could book ticket in my next effort!

The Impulse Blog!

I often have this impulse to start a new blog every few weeks or may be months. Today, I avoided the one just now.

Reason is quite simple for me. Being someone who keeps on pondering about things now & then, I tend to get lots of different thoughts regarding the things around me. What's so impressive about these thoughts that they are completely original & tend to linger a long in my head.

The urge to put these thoughts in blog is what I call as impulse. I can't start a new blog for every new idea or new thing in my mind. Who knows what will happen to that impulse after few hours or may be after few days?

I used to keep a small notebook in my pocket while traveling, in which I used to jot down all such impulsive thoughts & ideas. But later on, I started avoiding it, don't know why?

Then thought came to my mind- whyn't utilize my existing blog to share my thoughts? In my attempt to better utilize my idle blog pages, I have decided to share it here henceforth.

Isn't it better? I would end up saving efforts to keep on running every other blog site I started. I can better manage my existing blogs & at the end, it's not about how many blogs you write or where you write.

It's what you write it or not...that's it.