Wanna focus?  Then turn off those darn bells and whistles!

We live in a high techie techie world.  You've got email (how many accounts??), Facebook, Facebook group after group, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIN, text messages, traffic alerts, Twitter, Candy Crush and that village that you are building with the added pigs on the side and it doesn't stop there ... this list of electronic contacts goes on and on till the break o'dawn! #bebopwithme Now each one of them DEMANDS your attention right there when it wants to right then and there but guess what?  You fall for each bell and whistle that your laptop, tablet, smart phone and now smart  watch has when it goes off just like a baby when you tell them "I got your nose".  You know it, you hear or see that alert, you get a nervous twitch, the sweaty palms and you cannot focus until you see what it is because it beeped at you and you have conditioned yourself to respond.  Do you remember being small and you were out?  You waited to get home to make a call.  You waited to get home to write a later.  You waited to get home to play a game.  You waited!!!!!!!!!!

Well it is time to take control of what you want to pay attention to when you want to do it!!!  What?!  You are saying to yourself, "I can do that?"  Why yes!  Yes you can!

Each one of those apps, software, social media links has a .... ready? .... a way of turning off the notifications.  So go on ... dare to go to the setting of each one and turn off those freaking notifications.  Let yourself look in your high techie techie device for what is new when YOU ARE READY and not when it tells you it needs attention.  Let yourself go and watch that sleeping puppy video when it really is downtime and not when you are supposed to be calling a customer or paying attention to your son's winning game shot!

TAKE CONTROL BACK!  Trust me.  It will allow you to focus on what matters.  Try and let me know how it is working for you.