To understand this, you have to keep in mind that when you have to do something, the hardest part, the most difficult part, is always the start, really whatever you have to do. When you get going, it goes quickly. Whether it's when you want to do sports, you see, if you have to run, well the first few meters, it's not great, it pulls in your legs, it hurts your joints, it's not necessarily the easiest. On the other hand, once you get going, once you've already done a kilometer, well then, it goes all by itself. And that's true for everything. For me, if I write emails or articles, the start is harder; after that, it's fine. Same for videos, the first sentences of videos, it's hard, but when I've recorded for an hour, two hours, well it becomes easy.
well we have to start again, so we multiply the starts. If I make a video and then I stop, and then I create an email, and I redo the videos, then I will have to restart. Then my phone rings, I answer, I will have to stop and restart. Well we multiply the starts, we waste a lot of time.
And here, there are two enemies when we understand that. When we understand that it is the starts that are the most difficult and that interrupting ourselves ruins our productivity, well we understand that there are two enemies. The first is ourselves, when we are going to be distracted, and the second is others, when they are going to interrupt us.
So, in terms of distractions... you'll see, it's going to be linked to the third point, we're going to talk about energy in the third tip, but we can put in place a certain number of barriers so that we don't want to be interrupted.
For example, I put my phone on airplane mode when I work, because today the smartphone and the internet, in general, are what will distract us the most. You're making a video and you say to yourself "hey, I'm going to check my emails or I'm going to look at Facebook or I'm going to look at this thing on Google", well we tend to want to interrupt ourselves and do easy things. So, put your phone on airplane mode.
I delete apps. I don't have Instagram on my phone, for example, because I know that otherwise I'll watch a lot of short videos for hours. When I work, the phone, the smartphone is not in korea whatsapp number data the immediate vicinity. It's either on my chair, a little further away, or in another room. In the evening, the phone, the smartphone is not in my room, because if I put it on my bedside table, I'll say to myself "hey, before reading, I'm going to look at one or two things on the internet", and I spend hours and in the end I haven't read. So, set up barriers. Setting up barriers prevents you from being distracted.
The second enemy, we said, was distractions. Well, there too, in fact, we can put up barriers. We have to communicate. I say to Céline: "Listen, when the door is closed, I'm in intensive work mode. Please don't interrupt me unless it's an emergency." Of course, you have to be flexible, we're human. But the fact of having communicated that, the fact of also putting my phone on airplane mode, of refusing to take calls when I'm in meetings with myself... So, I make appointments with myself. This morning, I had an appointment with myself to prepare scripts. This afternoon, I have an appointment with myself. My phone, it's in airplane mode, I made an appointment with myself to simply record these podcasts. So, I have appointments with myself. That's it, quite simply. And you can't call me when I have an appointment with myself, just as you can't call me if I'm in a meeting with someone. It's a question of respect.
Of course, you don't have to be extreme. If I'm on a date with someone and my daughter calls me, of course I'm going to be there for her. You see, you always have to try to have rules, boundaries, while being flexible.
But really, the way I see it is that distractions and interruptions are time that is actually stolen from Authentic French, it's time that is stolen from my personal development, it's time that is stolen from my family. So, I want to protect that time with barriers, quite simply. Second piece of advice.