Discover how people-pleasing can sabotage your productivity and distract from essential tasks. Learn practical strategies to say no while preserving valuable professional relationships. Explore the importance of organizing your work into focused time blocks to enhance both productivity and focus. Uncover the secrets to prioritizing meaningful work over mere busyness and take charge of your time, ensuring that your career growth aligns with your true goals.
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People-Pleasing Hinders Focus
People often struggle with people-pleasing, not time management.
Saying yes to nonessential tasks means saying no to important work.
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Interruptions Destroy Productivity
Interruptions average every 11 minutes and take 23 minutes to recover from.
This leads to lost hours weekly and is incompatible with meaningful work.
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Social Harmony Trumps Priorities
Jenny noticed professionals prioritized short-term social harmony over long-term impact.
Saying yes to coffee chats delayed important deadlines unnecessarily.
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How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal
In 'Indistractable', Nir Eyal delves into the root causes of distraction, arguing that it starts from within and is driven by the desire to escape discomfort. The book offers a four-step, research-backed model to help readers master internal triggers, manage time effectively, hack back external triggers, and prevent distractions with pacts. Eyal also discusses how distraction affects various aspects of life, including work, relationships, and parenting, and provides novel techniques to overcome these challenges and live a more focused life.
This guest post is by Jenny Wood, a former Google executive who led one of the company’s biggest career programs, helping thousands take charge of their professional growth. Her new book, Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It, is a bold guide to standing out and getting ahead by embracing 9 unexpected traits.
Most professionals don’t struggle with time management. They struggle with people-pleasing.
From an early age, we’re conditioned to say “yes.” Yes to additional responsibilities. Yes to impromptu meetings. Yes to anything that signals we’re cooperative team players. But this automatic response creates a significant dilemma: every time we say yes to something inessential, we’re implicitly saying no to work that actually matters.
As Nir Eyal points out in Indistractable, if you don’t take control of your time, someone else will.
Nir And Far, a podcast about business, behaviour and the brain by Nir Eyal. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on iTunes and leave an iTunes review. It will greatly help new listeners discover the show. Please visit my website Nir and Far for other info about my writing, books and teaching: http://www.nirandfar.com/
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