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Hello and welcome to episode 65 of my Working With Podcast. A podcast created to answer all your questions about productivity, GTD, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show.

This week it's all about getting your life under control when everything goes crazy and the workload mounts up. A situation that can happen to any of us at any time.

Before I do get into this week's question though I would like to thank you all for listening and to remind you that if you have a question you would like answering on this show, then all you have to do is to either email me carl@carlpullein.com or DM me on Twitter or Facebook.

And for those of you who feel their 'system' is not working, then be sure to check out my FREE online course, The Beginners Guide to Building You Own COD system. This course could change your life because the simplicity, and easy maintenance of the COD system, when implemented has the power to dramatically boost your productivity.

Okay on with the show and that means it's time for me now to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week's question.
This week's question comes from Nonica. Nonica asks: Hello Carl, really I'm struggling with lack of focus and concentration. I have many pending writing projects and I have been missing deadlines I feel extremely distracted. I would be very grateful for your advice, suggestions and guidance.
Hi Nonica, thank you very much for your question.

Now I know at times it can be very hard to know what to focus on when you have so many things coming at you at once. This can be particularly so when you have an ever-increasing workload and family and personal commitments to attend to. When things become overwhelming in this way, our brain becomes our worst enemy because it starts screaming at you and reminding you all the time about the work you have to get done and does so at the most inconvenient of times. It will remind you-you have to finish off writing an article just as you are drifting off to sleep at the end of the day. It will remind you of the meeting preparation you have to do as you are trying to enjoy a romantic dinner with your partner and it will remind you-you have to call someone at 3AM in the morning-the worst time to call someone.

Now when you feel completely overwhelmed and you don't know where to start you need to take some timeout and stop. I know, when you feel you a lot to do, the very thought of stopping doing what you need to do seems a stupid idea, but if all you are doing is running around in a state of indecision and inactivity then stopping that for an hour or so is not going to have any impact on your current productivity or ability to get work done because you aren't actually getting any work done anyway.

Okay, the first thing you need to do is to calm your brain and the best way to do that is to get everything you have on your mind out of your mind and into an external place. That could be a piece of paper or a digital list. Where you write it doesn't really matter. What matters is you get everything out of your head. Your mind is a terrible place to hold all your commitments and work because your mind doesn't really know when you need reminding of things and so it reminds you of everything all at once and that's why you end up feeling overwhelmed.

Once you have everything written down you need to start organising and prioritising. This is why it is often better to get all this into a digital to-do list. A task list manager such as Todoist (which has a free version) would be a great way to do this because you can drag and move around items in a list. What you do is list out all the things you wrote down into categories and priorities. So for example, if you have six writing projects you would group those together and then prioritise them by when they are due to be completed. If you have a list of errands that need completing you would group those errands together and again prioritise which ones are the most important ones. Keep doing this until you have everything on your list categorised and prioritised.

If you give yourself two hours to do the brain dump and the organising you should be able to get most things into some kind of logical order in that time.

Okay, so great you now have a long, organised, list of things to do, How does that help me get things done? I hear you ask.

Good question. Here's the answer: open up your calendar. Now hopefully, you have all your events already on your calendar. This should include your professional and personal commitments. If you don't, do it now. You need to see where you have blocks of time. For most people, you will have a mix of meetings (onsite and offsite) as well as your personal commitments such as spending time with your family and friends, dental and medical appointments etc.

Now the reason you use your calendar is that your calendar is a list of the 24 hours you have each day. It is a visual representation of the time you have available each day and it never lies... Well unless you put stuff on there you never do. And you should not be doing that with your calendar.

Before we go any further you need to implement a golden rule. That is: "what goes on your calendar gets done." No excuses! The only reason an event on your calendar does not get done is either because the appointment was cancelled or for an absolute emergency. Your calendar, from now on, is your one productivity tool that will never ever lie. This has to be the one commitment you make to yourself that you stick to whatever happens.

Okay, so you have your calendar open and your professional and personal commitments are on there. What do you do next?

Right, now look at tomorrow. Where are the blank time slots? You may have a time slot between 8am and 10am where you have nothing on. Block that off right now. Choose one of the categories you have on your list of things to do and write that in that block. So in your case, Nonica, you could write in that block "Writing Time". So now you have made a commitment to yourself to spend two hours writing tomorrow between 8AM and 10AM. And it is a commitment. Now it is on your calendar and remember, "what's on your calendar gets done" so you are committed.

Now, it's a good idea to bring in the principles of the Golden 10 here-That is spending ten minutes at the end of the day to plan the next day-What you do here is look at your calendar and see you have a writing commitment between 8AM and 10AM tomorrow morning. Make a decision the night before in your ten-minute planning session on what you will write in that two hours. You do not want to be deciding that at 8AM tomorrow morning. You need to make that decision well before you sit down to write so you do not start wasting time procrastinating.

Now let's say you have a regularly recurring event that you know you must do or you feel obligated to do. This could be something like having to take care of elderly parents or grandparents. This again is a commitment and something you should get on your calendar. To me, family is far more important than work and so comes in at number 1 on my priorities list. As I fill out my calendar with time slots for the work I have to do, my family commitments would be put on there first. If a family member is in a hospital for example, then I would be scheduling visiting times every day. If the hospital visiting times are in the early evenings, then block that time off. Doing this means you get to see the available times you have for getting your work done.

Now, if you do have an unusually high amount of work to do, you may want to schedule more time in the evenings for additional work time. This often happens to me when I am developing a course or editing a book. I would schedule additional work time between 9pm and 11pm for doing that work. This is only temporary and so I do not worry too much about my work-life balance in those times. The work has to be done, and once it has been done I can relax.

Now over the next two to three weeks, you schedule your time slots to take care of all the work that is on your list. How you and what your schedule, of course, will be up to you and the deadlines you have coming up. You have to decide what gets done first.

Okay, so that takes care of the list you created when you did your mind dump. But there is another issue here. Life does not stop just because you have emptied your head of all the things you have to do. Life has a bad habit of creating more work for us every day so you are going to be picking up more work after you have completed your list. In this case, depending on how much work you have to do right now, you may need to put a temporary stop to new work coming in. In these situations, you need to talk to your work generators (as I like to call them) and ask then to freeze new work for a couple weeks so you can catch up. In my experience, people are very reasonable and will accommodate your request. It's only a temporary freeze and it will allow you to catch up and get everything in perspective.

If your work generators are not willing to freeze new work, you are going to have to allow sufficient time on your calendar for the new work coming in. This means keeping an hour or so each day free for such situations. The good news here is if you do not need that time for new work you can allocate other work to that time.

The final piece to this is to make sure you are not writing out your tasks so they feel overwhelming. If you write your task out as "write end of year report" and you know the end of year report is a 10,000 word report, you are not going to be motivated to do anything and you will feel overwhelmed. Instead, write "write 500 or 1,000 words of the end of year report" or you could write, as I do, "continue writing end of year report" That is a much more manageable chunk and you are much more likely to be motivated to get it done. By using the words "continue writing" I write as much as I can and I don't get that mental panic of thinking I have to write the full 10,000 words.

Other things you should be doing during your blocked out time is to switch off your distractions. That means your phone, your email and the people around you. Use headphones if you can and listen to great music. The Anjunabeats Worldwide and Above And Beyond's Group Therapy podcasts are great to work to, and if you prefer something a little slower try the Anjunadeep podcast. I will put links to these fantastic podcasts in the show notes.

And that's really all you can do, Nonica. You need to first get everything on your mind off your mind and into an external place-paper or digital-then you need to categorise what those things are. Once you have that done use your calendar to block the time off you need to get them done. The only way the work will get done is if you do the work and to do the work you need to make time to do it. You calendar can be your best friend there.

I hope that has helped and and thank you so much for your question, Nonica.

Thank you to you also for listening. I do this for you guys and I want to help as many of you as I can to become better organised and more productive. So if you know anyone that could benefit from subscribing to this podcast please share it with them.

It just just remains for me now to wish you all a very very productive week.

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Episode 65 | How to Find Your Focus And Concentration - Carl Pullein

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Sometimes Friday rolls around and you need a little extra help staying on task at the office. Maybe there are distracting noises or you're just ready for the weekend - and who can blame you? When you think about ways to stay focused at work, a podcast might not be the first solution that comes to mind, but you shouldn't rule it out until you try it.

If you consider the different things people do to concentrate during the day, it all makes a little more sense. Accountemps, a temporary accounting and finance staffing company, conducted a survey of 1,000 people in 2018 to assess music in the workplace. The survey found that 85% of respondents said they listened to music while working. In addition to this, 39% of the total group said that listening to music helped them be much more productive while 32% said that they felt somewhat more productive. And while this only has to do with music, it's not farfetched to assume that certain podcasts can have the same effect on people. I'm not suggesting super thrilling podcasts that'll leave you hanging on every word, but rather, ones to play in the background that'll keep you from getting distracted and motivate you all at once.

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Rick Pastoor

Rick Pastoor (1988) is de binnenbaas van het journalistieke platform Blendle. Achter de schermen is hij eindverantwoordelijk voor de diensten die het bedrijf de afgelopen jaren lanceerde. Blendle is inmiddels een internationaal bekend journalistiek platform met miljoenen gebruikers. Rick kwam op zijn vijfentwintigste binnen als programmeur en heeft nu de leiding over het snelgroeiende team. Door de jaren heen ontwikkelde hij zijn eigen werkmethode, die inmiddels vele volgers heeft, en die presenteerde hij in zijn eerste boek 'GRIP'.

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Het is best gek dat we nooit écht hebben leren werken. Hoe houden we ons staande in deze tijd van voortdurende bereikbaarheid? Hoe bewaren we overzicht, met die uitpuilende mailbox, overvolle agenda en eindeloze takenlijst? En nog veel belangrijker: hoe zorgen we ervoor dat we eindelijk toekomen aan de plannen die we wel hebben maar niet uitvoeren? Sommige mensen lijken altijd grip op de zaak te hebben. Een van hen is Blendle-man Rick Pastoor. In dit boek deelt hij zijn razendslimme werkmethode GRIP, die hij door de jaren heen ontwikkelde. Zijn no-nonsenseaanpak leert je hoe je rust, ruimte en richting in je werkweek krijgt. En hoe je jezelf kunt uitdagen, ook al heb je het druk. Het resultaat? Je gaat niet alleen efﬁ ciënter aan de slag, maar vooral effectiever. En zodra je grip hebt, ontstaat er ruimte voor grotere plannen en levensdromen. GRIP toont hoe je die kunt realiseren. In dit boek geen eindeloze theorieën, maar eenvoudige, concrete stappen. En je begint gewoon vandaag.

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Jeetje. Wat viel dit boek tegen. Als je net als ik al veel non-fictie hebt gelezen rondom dit soort thema's en bijvoorbeeld fan bent van de Getting Things Done methode, dan leer je niks nieuws. Ik heb werkelijk waar geen enkele nieuwe tip kunnen ontdekken. Het eerste deel gaat over hoe je praktisch en efficiënt je werkweek indeelt door o.a. ook reistijd op te nemen in je agenda, prioriteiten te stellen, belangrijkste dingen aan het begin van de dag te doen, niet teveel te plannen, email op vaste tijden checken, etc. Deel 2 gaat over het plannen van jaardoelen waarin het standaard framework voorbij komt van doen wat je leuk vindt in combinatie met je vaardigheden en wat je belangrijk vindt. Het laatste deel gaat over het ontwikkelen van jezelf. Het boek wordt gebracht als dé eye opener, maar ik heb er dus helemaal niks aan. Als je al redelijk gestructureerd werkt met bijv een to-do app, digitale agenda en notitie app, dan hoef je dit boek niet te lezen.

Goeie samenvatting van David Allen, Stephen Covey, Cal Newport met wat eigen inbreng van Rick Pastoor zelf.

Leuk boek om te lezen. Leest vlot weg en is goed toepasbaar. Het onderwerp jaarplan vond ik een goeie en heb ik veel aan.

Bedankt Rick!

Vlot geschreven tips & trick om je werk wat meer te ordenen. Met name de eerste paar hoofdstukken vond ik interessant, daarna kon het me minder grijpen (hehe).

Aanrader als je nog weinig ingelezen bent in dit onderwerp, anders breng dit boek weinig nieuws.

Grip geeft je zeer praktische tips over beter en slimmer werken. In tegenstelling tot bekende managementboeken die vaag blijven over welke kleine dingen je kunt aanpassen in je dagelijkse werk om effectiever te werken, heb je na het lezen van Grip direct een aantal zaken waar je mee aan de slag kunt.

Het vult precies de ruimte tussen boeken als getting things done en 'de 7 eigenschappen' van Stephen Covey. Zowel theoretisch als praktisch maar vooral: hoe ga ik dit morgen aanpakken.

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The cocktail party effect or phenomenon in psychology is our ability to tune into a single voice from many conversations going on in a noisy room.

For psychologists the 'cocktail party effect' or phenomenon is our impressive and under-appreciated ability to tune our attention to just one voice from a multitude.

At a party, when bored with our current conversational partner - and for the compulsive eavesdropper - allowing the aural attention to wander around the room is a handy trick.

Perhaps only the most recidivist eavesdroppers are aware how special the cocktail party effect is.

But even they might be surprised - and worried - by just how much we can miss in the voices we decide to tune out.

The cocktail party effect in psychology

The cocktail party effect or phenomenon - our ability to separate one conversation from another - is beautifully demonstrated in a classic study carried out by Colin Cherry ( Cherry, 1953).

Cherry used the simple method of playing back two different messages at the same time to people, under a variety of conditions.

In doing so he discovered just how good we are at filtering what we hear, which is how we overcome the cocktail party problem.

To accomplish this task, Cherry reports, participants had to close their eyes and concentrate hard.

In the first set of experiments on the cocktail party effect he played back two different messages voiced by the same person through both ears of a pair of headphones and asked participants to 'shadow' one of the two messages they were hearing by speaking it out loud, and later by writing it down.

When doing this they could, with effort, and while hearing the clips over and over again, separate one of the messages from the other.

With the two voice presented together, as though the same person were standing in front of you saying two completely different things at the same time, this task appears to be very hard, but still possible.

Pushing participants further Cherry found he could confuse listeners, but only by having both messages consist entirely of nonsensical platitudes.

Only then were participants unable to pick apart one message from the other.

This is not a wholly satisfying demonstration of the cocktail party effect.

How the cocktail party effect works

The real surprise, though, came in the second set of experiments on the cocktail party effect or phenomenon.

For these Cherry fed one message to the left ear and one to the right ear - and once again both messages were voiced by the same speaker.

Suddenly participants found the task incredibly easy.

Indeed many were surprised how easily and accurately they could tune in to either one of the messages, and even shift their attention back and forth between the two.

No longer did they have to close their eyes and furrow their brows - this was much easier.

What participants were experiencing here seems much closer to most people's experience of the cocktail party phenomenon.

At a party people are arrayed all around us and their conversations come from various different directions.

We seem to be able to use this information, which is key to the cocktail party effect, to reject all but the one in which we are interested.

Ignoring rejected speech

Although we are fantastically good at tuning in to one conversation over all the others, we seem to absorb very little information from the conversations we reject.

This is the flipside of the cocktail party effect and where it can get embarrassing.

Cherry's experiments on the cocktail party effect revealed that people picked up surprisingly little information presented to the other, 'rejected ear', often failing to notice blatant changes to the unattended message.

When asked afterwards, participants:

could not identify a single phrase from the speech presented to the rejected ear.

weren't sure the language in the rejected ear was even English.

failed to notice when it changed to German.

mostly didn't notice when the speech to the rejected ear was being played backwards (though some did report that it sounded a bit strange).

Across all the different conditions in these cocktail party effect studies, there were only two aspects of the speech to the rejected ear the participants could reliably identify.

The first was that it was speech compared to a tone, the second was when the speaker suddenly changed from male to female.

Missed your own name

This research on the cocktail party effect doesn't bode at all well for people with a habit of tuning out of conversations when they lose interest (you know who you are!).

If you really are listening to someone else it's likely you won't hear a word of what's being said to you directly.

One study has found that two-thirds of people don't even notice when their own name is slipped into the unattended speech, while those who do notice are likely to be of the extremely distractable variety ( Conway et al., 2001).

That demonstrates the power of the cocktail party effect.

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