Comments on: Beating Continuous Partial Attention https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/04/beating-continuous-partial-attention/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beating-continuous-partial-attention David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:45:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: mary catherine https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/04/beating-continuous-partial-attention/#comment-806 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:45:19 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=1375#comment-806 Same for me, Vivian. What helped was distinguising between processing my email and doing the results of the processing. Those are separate steps, unless the doing takes 2 minutes or less. (Credit to one of David’s coaches for pointing that out to me.) It took awhile, but now I have that habit of processing email onto my lists, and following links in time that’s dedicated for that.

]]> By: vivian https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/04/beating-continuous-partial-attention/#comment-805 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:38:08 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=1375#comment-805 I’ve managed to turn off all my blinky reminders, and it definitely does help. But my next problem is that when I *do* go check email or RSS, I get sucked in and click outbound links and get distracted for 2 hours. So it seems I’ve only succeeded in delaying my distraction. I’ve tried setting timers, but inevitably I turn the alarm off and say “OK, I’ll just finish this article” and then forget that I said that.

Rather than scheduling “off” time, I think I actually need some way to enforce limited “on” time.

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