The last week of August is often slow because of the impending Labor Day Weekend. This is a good time to review your productivity. Take a moment to look at your Task Distractors and your Mental Distractors. Can you make a plan to reduce or eliminate these for a few moments or several hours at a time?
Identify and Reduce your Task Distracters
- Internet
- Texting
- People stopping by
- Telephone
- Cell Phone
- Smart phone aps
- The physical mail
- Magazines, books, newspapers
- Television
- IPod, MP3 device or radio
Identify and Reduce your Mental Distracters
- People or situations renting “space” in your head
- Generating new ideas
- Tangential exploits
- Daydreaming
- Negative thinking
Terry's thinking! 
Good way to keep focus.