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It isn’t that I cannot get motivated, in fact I pride myself in being very motivated. The problem I have is letting other things get in the way of my productivity. The two biggest problems I have are Twitter and Email.

Starting with Twitter, I am addicted. I have to be on all the time, checking what everyone is tweeting, tweeting back. Just keeping in scene really. The problem here is that I can be writing a report/essay/reply to an important email and when I get a pop up on tweetdeck I will abandon it, reply to my tweet and then forget exactly what I was thinking. This is why from now on I will not be using any Twitter App on my computer and just the web front end. I will make sure that the tab doesn’t stay open and that I check twitter on a timed basis instead of being constantly online. I hope that in doing this my reports and essays are going to be better and I don’t have to redo them.

Emails. I have two email account that get mail sent to them, (I do have more but my mail gets forwarded to these two accounts). I used ThunderBird to check my email and have it updating on a 1 minute basis, this means constant emails coming through over and over again. Just like twitter, when I get an email I cannot resist but read and then reply, I pride myself in being a quick replier to an email however my productivity is going down because of it. From now on all my email will be again, web based, and it will be checked on a timed basis just like twitter.

I hope that this will help me be more productive and in turn boost my motivation. This is just the begining of a series of posts I am going to do on productivity whilst I read Getting Things Done.

Cheers