𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗬 — 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗼 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗜𝘁

If you go through your gadgets, you will notice how often you receive notifications within 24 hours. From phone calls to emails, text messages and the multitude influx of notifications from Social Media.

Whether you realize it yet or not, it’s killing your productivity.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰

As important as notifications serve in trying to keep you notified of works, events and schedules , most notably they serve as a distraction.

Whether it’s the popup of a red number, a vibration or a sound notification, these alerts are designed to get your attention. They are practically almost impossible to ignore. If you are working on something important, your focus is going to drift and your effectiveness will immediately decline.

Going through your memory lane, you can recall how long it takes you to recover from some of these distraction and go back to work.

Notifications cans also be addictive. Social Media apps for example, design themselves to intentionally get you acquainted and addicted to their platforms. They get you through notifications and the giant of them is Facebook with the primary goal of getting every user addicted to their platform.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

Turn off notifications for everything. This sounds hard right?

This is the obvious solution that none of us actually want to consider in other not to miss any important notification when we need it most.

So how can we curtail this fear while still improving control over our notification bombardment?

Here are few more manageable solutions

(𝗔) 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲:

You can turn off notifications for all new updates and only receive notifications when your name is tagged. You can as well turn of notifications for unimportant apps like Social Media apps or web notifications.

(𝗕)𝗧𝗼𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:

You can turn off your notifications within a period of time during working hours. You can even take a day in a week as a notification day to work on notifications.

(𝗖) 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀:

If turning up all notifications makes you feel anxious, consider opening a reserved channel for emergencies. Turn of every notifications except this emergency channel.

If you don’t do anything and let notifications rule your working life, it’s going to work against you.