Productivity

Saw this while unproductively scrolling…

Change of venue and removal of the scrolling device. I have a home office; I’ll move to the kitchen out the living room and take my laptop. I close my browser and, if I have to look something up, I’ll use only my Firefox instance which, on my machine, is the clean/no cookie/no extension/incognito-zero-history browser. Not having my bookmarks makes it easier to remain focused.

If I’m not in the office and am scrolling on my phone, I’ll put it in the other room, turn it over, or pull up the stopwatch (or timer) as a reminder that it’s tracking productive time, not there for scrolling. The timer helps in the office, too. I often get impatient waiting for web pages to load or files to download - I’ll use the timer as a focus point. Am I doing nothing but looking at a stupid timer for 12 seconds between page loads? Yes. But I’m also not filling the time with distraction and allowing myself to get pulled back into a scroll-of-doom.