As a child did your parents express what you thought were some old fashioned views and you hoped you never got so old that you’d lose touch with what’s current? Well I think I’ve morphed into my parents!!!

The topic of the last blog was about interruptions in the workplace. Today I’d like to talk about distractions and what we can do to minimise these.

Let’s start with definitions to highlight the difference between interruptions and distractions.

Interruption - our concentration is broken by others, whether that be people, technology, noise etc.

Distraction - our concentration is disturbed by our self ie. drifting off topic with other thoughts