Okay,
I gotta get this report done by two.
it's an email from my boss, better read that, she's reminding me about my timesheet, better do that now.
It's my mom, she wants to know if I'm coming to visit this weekend, better check my calendar and let her know.
it's Jill in accounting. She needs my expenses for her report next week, it's somewhere on my computer, let me search for it, here it is, I'll just pop it in email,
I can't get anything done.
What's the problem?
I'm getting so many emails and texts, and I've got this report, to do at 2pm.
Relax, you might want to save up all those emails and deal with them after you finish your report, same thing for the text messages.
But I gotta answer, Jane, she's our boss.
Well, maybe if it's something urgent but has she been emailing you all afternoon?
No, just once.
Okay, what about the others and the texts?
You're right, they weren't that urgent but when something beeps I can't resist checking.
Remember what you learned in the productivity training class?
Yeah, I guess I'd better do what they suggested, I'll put my phone in a drawer and then do emails after I turn in the report.
Well, so many emails, okay, this one's just the new company travel policy, I'll file it just in case I needed a leader and this one's a research request.
It'll take me a full day, so I'll file it in my action folder, these two just need a quick yes, I'll send them now.
Already halfway through the emails.