Are you overwhelmed by the sheer number of emails that you receive every day? Between the job listings, Yahoo! Groups digests, mailing list dailies and updates from your favorite blogs (>cough<), do you feel stuck in the inbox quicksand?
--Jacob Share
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Are you considering taking a sick day so that you can get some work done? Do you find your mind wandering as you scan through a spreadsheet or write a post for your blog? You’re not alone. Knowing how to prevent interruptions and avoid distractions is important, but those considerations become secondary if you’ve mastered [...]
Continue reading >> How to Master Your Attention Span and Stay in Focus--Jacob Share
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Just like sleeping straight through the night is a challenge for many people, so too is finishing work without diversions. Here’s what you can do to stay on course and finish what you start. 12 Tips to take to heart Deal with each annoyance separately. Too much noise where you’re working? Move your work area, [...]
Continue reading >> You Too Can Avoid Distractions Easily--Jacob Share
Don’t you hate it when you sit down to do something, you start getting really into it, you’re perhaps even working something complicated out in your mind and then RRRING! the phone goes or BEEPOO! an email arrives or BOOWEEP! someone messages you or HEY! you’re tapped on the shoulder…A few minutes later, you’re finally [...]
Continue reading >> What Everybody Ought to Know About Preventing Interruptions and Avoiding Distractions--Jacob Share
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I love the Internet. I hate boredom. In 2007, it has now been 13 years that I’ve been online and to be perfectly honest, I don’t think that I’ve ever been bored online in all that time. TV? Used to bore me all the time – not just the ads either – and that’s why [...]
Continue reading >> What Distracts You From Working?--Jacob Share
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Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of Group Writing Projects.
From Jacob:
I grew up between Canada, France and Israel where I had my first Internet experience in 1994 and was hooked. Since then I've enjoyed playing a part in growing the Web as a manager-developer and project manager at Amazon.com and other e-commerce companies before starting up my own venture.
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