Comments on: Stay on target! Ways to help yourself work http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/ Software development wisdom and common-sense for the scientist-programmer Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Kevin http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Kevin Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:36:46 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=548#comment-455 There was a time when my concentration levels would be quite high. And I would spend some 6-8 hours studying. But that was before the internet became a common household item. Now it is very difficult to concentrate on anything for more than 15-20 minutes as that browser button is just a click away. My way is to remind yourself whenever the mind gets distracted. Remind yourself about your goal and if it is truly important to you, you will get back to work. There was a time when my concentration levels would be quite high. And I would spend some 6-8 hours studying. But that was before the internet became a common household item. Now it is very difficult to concentrate on anything for more than 15-20 minutes as that browser button is just a click away.

My way is to remind yourself whenever the mind gets distracted. Remind yourself about your goal and if it is truly important to you, you will get back to work.

]]> By: gioby http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/comment-page-1/#comment-328 gioby Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:31:16 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=548#comment-328 I am trying LeechBox and it seems to work nice. In general, you have posted some very useful tools, but to reduce distractions it is also very important to work well in your team. If you know clearly which are your objectives and have frequent feedback from your colleagues you don't get distracted, and if you also share code with them and do pair programming it is better. I have replied to this post in my blog, look at the first Trackback below. I am trying LeechBox and it seems to work nice.

In general, you have posted some very useful tools, but to reduce distractions it is also very important to work well in your team.

If you know clearly which are your objectives and have frequent feedback from your colleagues you don’t get distracted, and if you also share code with them and do pair programming it is better.

I have replied to this post in my blog, look at the first Trackback below.

]]> By: Bioinfo Blog! - How to stay focused on your work (programming) http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Bioinfo Blog! - How to stay focused on your work (programming) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:35:18 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=548#comment-327 [...] going back to the argument of this post, I think that the tools linked by programming4scientists can be very useful; however, the most effective way to avoid distractions is to work in a good [...] [...] going back to the argument of this post, I think that the tools linked by programming4scientists can be very useful; however, the most effective way to avoid distractions is to work in a good [...]

]]> By: John http://www.programming4scientists.com/2009/06/10/stay-on-target-ways-to-help-yourself-work/comment-page-1/#comment-325 John Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:15:02 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=548#comment-325 http://nowdothis.com Huge help for focusing. http://nowdothis.com

Huge help for focusing.

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