How to deal with Interruption?

 If we are doing a job that needs full focus, and again and again, we get disturbed by our colleagues/family… So that we can’t continue with our job… Good news that the problem is quite common…  After research, an interruption in our work-flow can cost us 25 minutes…when we need uninterrupted time to think…  and even 25% of these tasks can’t be resolved on the same day! Solution: Don’t overthink? (jokes must be)  The programmers who are designing computer software, even have to cope with an interruption in their work-flow up to every 3 minutes…  The problem is:  Not so much the interruption…but that we lose our control over our focus…  There was a research about 2 groups working under full focus. The first group gets disturbed on random through a loud noise. The second group gets also disturbed on random through loud noise, but they can switch off this noise…   Results: The second group could get 5 times more things done than the first group… EVEN the first group didn’t use the switch to turn off the noise! If we have a choice, our ego will comply much easier! I was grown up in a big family (my mother got 5 kids in 3 years) and when somebody interrupted me with the things that I was doing, I got upset…  After some time, I learned to focus so much on the things that I was doing, that nobody could stop me, and even I could not recognize that my siblings were demanding something from me… I just switched them from inside off… Because I want to do the stuff… I have written a lot of my books in noisy hotel lobbies…  Can you see the point? If we give our jobs the highest priority and everything else is just a distraction… And distraction we can switch off. It is not a miracle that IT-professionals have the highest focus and can deal even with an interruption every 3 minutes…  If your focus is to socialize with people, you don’t need and don’t have that focus. Solution 2 (no joke) You give your colleagues a manual about how to deal with you under construction! Politeness wins: Can I interrupt you? (You don’t put on your desk a gun. Because this is threatening…)  You replay:  YesNot right now!Wait a minute! When it is urgent to interrupt you. Sorry, please I need urgently something…  (And then you look in your drawer for the gun… ) Okay, if it must be, then I can help you….   When you are working in a corporation.  Ask to do a big task at home. Or stick a paper on your room or in front of your desk (if this is possible in your firm), that you want to work for 1.5 hours (no interruption) from XX:00 to YY:00 and then you are available for XX minutes… And put off your phone…  My Video: How to deal with Interruption? https://youtu.be/ZsM-roC4M9IMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast.B/How-to-deal-with-Interruption.mp3