The first thing that you want to cut back on is unnecessary communication. This could be friends calling to shoot the breeze when you’re trying to work or telemarketers calling when you’re trying to work etc. You can also tell family and friends not to call you when you’re working.

Make sure to get put on the do not call list, if possible, that should get rid of most of the telemarketers. When it comes to businesses, try to tell them that you prefer e-mail instead of phone calls, it is much less distracting to get an e-mail, as opposed, to a phone call.

People also spend way too much time reading e-mails and instant messaging. I know people that spend all day with their skype open and that would drive me bonkers. I would have people talking to me constantly, cut back on that stuff and don’t be on too many mailing lists.

The next thing that you should do is organize your bookmarks. Make sure to label your folders, I have like a dozen folders and various amounts of links in each folder. This cuts out the distractions of using search engines. Relying on search engines can be so distracting because you end up clicking on so many other web sites.

This will save you time because you don’t have to manually type in the web sites. Sometimes you want a bookmark to a specific web page on a huge site and that will also save you time.

Fill out a daily planner and prioritize your tasks for the day. This will help you cut out distractions by getting the most important things done first. A person has peak hours of performance. You don’t want to work your peak hours on stuff that isn’t that important or isn’t a priority.

I will always work on the most important things first. I’ve had enough of those nights when it gets to be about ten at night and I still have hours of work to do because I got distracted during the day with tasks that really weren’t that important.

I highly suggest that you write everything down and have a daily planner. It keeps a person on track and helps cut out the distractions. You write it all down the night before and you set it next to you and then you just check each task off when you’re finished with it. It is kind of fun and pretty rewarding.