Make technology work for you, not vice versa

- [Narrator] Part of focus is kind of looking at you personally. What are the things that are distracting to you? Because you may not find the music distracting. So I look at kind of four different categories, having each person analyze this for themselves. I use the acronym TYPE, T-Y-P-E for types of distractions that prevent us from focusing. One is technology, the T, so having your cellphone not just on vibrate where it goes up off on the desk and you have this obsessive compulsive desire to check it. We have this insatiable curiosity, we have to know, ugh, what is it? But if you've got your email notifications going on, your phone going off, apps, notifications, different beeps and buzzes and whistles, it's not a wonder we can't focus and get an article written for a 1/2 hour or whatever it is that we're trying to do. So we have to create kind of a bubble around ourselves. Forward the phone, turn the phone…