Glasgow Interactive Discuss The Best Ways to Stay Focused

July 15, 2012 - PRLog -- Gilles Baudet, Managing Director at Glasgow Interactive believes that everyone has times when they struggle to stay focused at work and become less productive, wasting valuable time and effort. As there is no chance of shutting out the world while you’re busy, the decision to stay focused at work is in your hands. It’s about finding the right techniques, knowing your priorities, and sticking to them.

The world is moving fast and it's only getting faster. There is so much technology, information, so much to understand, to think about and to react to. We all try to speed up to match the pace of the action around us. We constantly check our emails, our twitter, our facebook, our blogs and our linked-in. We get excited each time we hear the beep or vibration of a new text message. This is a mistake. The speed with which information hurtles towards us is unavoidable, but trying to catch it all is counterproductive. The faster the waves come, the more deliberately we need to navigate. Glasgow Interactive believe that never before has it been so important to be grounded and intentional and to know what's important.

The world is changing fast and you must stay focused on the road ahead. Now is a good time to pause, prioritize, and focus. Make two lists:

List A: Focus List (the road ahead)
What are you trying to achieve? What makes you happy? What's important to you? Design your time around those things. Because time is your one limited resource and no matter how hard you try you can't work 24/7.

List B: Ignore List (the distractions)
To succeed in using your time wisely, you have to ask the equally important but often avoided complementary questions: what are you willing not to achieve? What doesn't make you happy? What's not important to you? What gets in the way?

Glasgow Interactive believe that the leaders who will continue to thrive in the future know the answers to these questions and each time there's a demand on their attention they ask whether it will further their focus or dilute it. You shouldn't create these lists and then put them in a drawer; you should review them each morning and then find the courage to follow through every day.