You need to put aside distractions. Get focused like if the roof fell in you wouldn’t notice. Make it clear to your work colleagues to tip toe around your desk and NEVER to interrupt, unless it’s really important. Tell them to wait till they see you take a break.

People have a bad habit of interrupting others who are working. Stamp it out in your production environment. Otherwise a one-week project can run to a month or more. If you are the boss, get rid of people who have time to loaf around interrupting others. It costs you time and money.

There is science in this. When you are fully concentrated you get more done. But there is a warm up period, until you reach optimum. And then there is a fall off period, when you start to grow tired and peak performance suffers. Scientific tests show that work-bytes of about 1 hour are just great. Maybe 50 minutes of hard work and then a cool off.

Breaks are just as important as work-bytes. They relax and revive you. Go play pinball or punch a bag for a few minutes, take a drink and then go right back into it, FULL THROTTLE.

Just thought you should know this stuff. It often gets missed by the “success gurus”.