From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

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Craft an environment that supports productivity

Craft an environment that supports productivity

From the course: Prioritizing Tasks for Maximum Impact

Craft an environment that supports productivity

- [Woman] And then the last one's the environment. - [Man] Tell us about the environment. - [Woman] Well, I work in a home office and so I have a dog. So if I am a working and a postal, you know, UPS comes to the door and rings the bell, my dog's going to set off barking. Now I've got to go get the dog you know, take care of the package. Boom, I just had an interruption. So we have a sign underneath our Ring doorbell, strangely, that says, do not ring, please. And so when they don't ring the bell, my dog doesn't bark and I'm not interrupting my flow, my concentration. I can go get that package whenever. In other words, we allow things in the environment to dictate our schedules and we react to things as they happen. So we have to just notice in our environments, just look around, listen, smell, see, figure out those things that are really drawing your attention and see if you can proactively put some things in place to…

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