Infographic For The Win! How to Curb Distractions and Improve Productivity

September 25 by Mike Vardy in Productivity | 1.1K Shares

We’re always looking for new ways to help people “lifehack” here, and Metrofax has put together this handy infographic entitled How to Curb Distractions and Improve Productivity. The infographic breaks down the ideals when it comes to meetings, desk organization, and digital organization. It’s definitely worth a look.

What are your thoughts on meetings? When and how often should they be held? Where do you fall when it comes to desk and digital organization? Is clutter a problem for you? Share in the comments below.

Featured photo credit: Diversion Sign for Traffic via Shutterstock and infographic by Metrofax

Mike Vardy is a husband, father, independent writer, speaker, podcaster and "productivityist". He is also the author of the book, The Front Nine: How To Start The Year You Want Anytime You Want, published by Diversion Books. You can learn more about his other work at his website, MikeVardy.com, visit his blog at Productivityist.com, and you can follow him as @mikevardy on Twitter.

0 Responses to “Infographic For The Win! How to Curb Distractions and Improve Productivity”

nonefkdnjwfff says:

September 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm

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Scott Wagers says:

October 4, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Nice infographic. It is clear that people don’t like having meetings. Is the solution less meetings or better meetings? Meetings are a form of communication and like what we have learned about communication from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and blogging for that matter, is that communication is better when a bit of structure is applied to it. The brillance of Twitter is limiting the input to 140 characters. It forces efficient communication.

Did you happen to ask about teleconferences in the survey? I would bet the response would be even worse. I have been running some large collaborative consortium projects (up to 40 partners) and they all at first resist the idea of teleconferences. However, after a bit of time working with well organized and structured teleconferences they all want more.

To address the issue of too many meetings, the first step of structuring is defining the objectives and purpose of the meeting or teleconference. Then it makes it easier to apply the advice of Derek Sivers “Its either Hell YEAH or no.” Then it becomes not less meetings, but less pointless meetings.

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