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Short and sweet but powerful!

By alun | July 7, 2009

This came from Helen Waring’s blog. Helen, The Walkers Coach, writes regularly. She is married to Alan Stevens whose work I have featured before.

Evidence to turn off your email, twitter etc etc and deal with them when the time is right for you.

“It takes 64 seconds to retrieve your train of thought after interruption by e-mail, one study shows.

That means if you check your in-box every 5 minutes, you waste 8.5 hours a week. Try intervals of 45 minutes, and turn off the “new e-mail” pop-up alert.”

Source: Thomas Jackson, PhD, Loughborough University.

Well that surely gave me food for thought, what about you?

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