The kids are back in school. What you should be doing to keep up.

Do you have a plan for continual learning like our children do?

If you’re like me, the first few weeks back at school were likely filled with excitement and stress, for both kids and parents. Kids have spent the last two months learning their new routines, getting to know their classmates and settling into learning mode again. We, as parents, help get them off to school on time, pack their lunches and make sure their homework is done. Why will we do all this for our kids for a dozen years or more? I think most would agree that we want them to learn the skills necessary for a successful, happy and fulfilling life. 

5 Ways to Manage Distractions

They cost much more than you think.

Distractions, and especially the most serious of distractions, the dreaded “interruption” cost us tremendously.  Various studies come to the same conclusion — when we’re interrupted, it takes several minutes to get back to the same level of focus and concentration.  Depending on the study, I have read that from 6 to 25 minutes of time is lost with each interruption.  Even using the 6 minute stat, simple math dictates that if you are working on something requiring at least a moderate level of focus (which applies to most of our roles), and get interrupted or distracted just 5 times in an hour, you are working at 50% productivity!  Simply losing 10 minutes per day to interruptions equals a full workweek per year of lost time.