<p>Since 2009, blogger Maneesh Sethi has written about how to multiply your productivity. According to Sethi, <b>"It's not a lack of willpower, it's your surroundings. Set up systems to quadruple your productivity - overnight."</b> He writes for HackTheSystem.com, which hosts numerous articles intended to help readers increase their productivity.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://hackthesystem.com/blog/addicted-to-distraction-5-tools-to-help-you-fight-back-and-finally-focus/" target="_new"> Click Here To Check Out HackTheSystem </a><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Tremendous gains in productivity can be achieved by doing less. Heavy multi-tasking has been linked to increased distractions. Minimizing distractions effectively means <b>minimizing simultaneous processes.</b><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">A recent Stanford University study by Dr. Clifford Nass et al. examined systematic differences between heavy and light media multi-taskers. The results showed that "heavy media multi-taskers are more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli and from irrelevant representations in memory." In other words, if you're trying to pay attention to too many different streams of information, <b>you are far more likely to become distracted with irrelevancies</b> and will exhibit worse performance overall.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.stanford.edu/~nass/Cognitive_Control_Final.pdf" target="_new"> Click Here to View the Stanford University Study </a><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">There are many time management software solutions. For example, Klok is a desktop application that allows users to schedule and visualize how much time they are spending on various tasks throughout the workday. It is also useful for managers, who can easily keep track of their employees' productivity.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.getklok.com/" target="_new"> Click Here to Check Out Klok </a><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">While there are many time management strategies, the first step is to understand the underlying cognitive limitations involved in multi-tasking. It's not our fault, and changing the way we work could be well worth it.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
