From the course: Staying Organized While Working Remotely or On-Site
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Turn your phone on airplane mode
From the course: Staying Organized While Working Remotely or On-Site
Turn your phone on airplane mode
- Have you ever been trying to work and you just get interrupted, not just by emails, but by text messages? One way to set up boundaries and get more work done is to set your phone on airplane mode for set chunks of time during the day. Here are a few steps for cutting down the interruptions to your work time. First, set boundaries. If you need to let people know ahead of time that you can't be reached during that time, do it. What's the worst thing that could happen? You'll be amazed at how easy it is to implement once you set up the system. Putting your phone on airplane mode while you're doing your highest level work is like setting a meeting with yourself. You wouldn't want to be interrupted if you were in a meeting with someone else, it's the same thing. Next, make sure to turn your alerts off on your phone. Any sound that is being made when you receive a text message, Facebook alert, or the myriad of other alerts you may get, is just unnecessary and…
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