how do you deal with having to get up while you're working? so I had a really nice environment and was doing my homework and everything was going surprisingly well, i got really into my work...
and then i needed to grab my notebook.
and now ive been sitting on the couch doing executive dysfunction for like an hour.
Sent January 19, 2024
Interruptions SUCK and can totally derail stuff, as you obviously know. (As an aside, I love the phrase "doing executive dysfunction" and I may need to steal it.)
If timers don't stress you out, you could set one for five minutes and give yourself an active break. You have to get up and do something else anyhow, might as well make it even more useful. Get up, set your timer, go find the notebook and put it on your desk, then grab a snack and some water and put them on your desk, and then pace until the timer goes off. Then return to your desk and get back into things.
If timers do stress you out, I think the key is to keep yourself from getting sucked into something else. So you need your notebook? Go find it and return to your desk immediately. Don't let yourself sit down on the couch, that is not what you're doing right now. That sort of thing.
Followers, how do you keep yourself on task when you're interrupted by something that should be simple to deal with (but we all know isn't simple because nothing is ever as easy as it ought to be)?
-J
