My top 10 strategies for helping you stay focused at work include:

Prioritize tasks into what is important and urgent. Accomplish these first, then complete others in a timely manner.

Ask for help. If you are constantly interrupted by phone calls or impromptu student visits, meet with your supervisor in order to provide a more organized structure.

De-clutter your workspace, leaving only one project to be completed at a time.

Noise cancellation devices, such as earplugs, may help improve your focus on the task at hand.

Privacy. See if you can relocate to another area when your assignment requires attention without interruption.

Temperature control. Ask the maintenance department to provide better regulation of the heating and cooling system in your office.

Create solutions that will provide for a better work environment.

Nurture yourself, and provide positive feedback with your accomplishments.

Stop fighting the tide. Learn to accept and expect interruptions. Instead of getting frustrated, just go with the flow.

Don’t look too far ahead. Step back, take a deep breath, smile and exhale. Now you’re ready for the task at hand!

Take it from me, I have an extraordinary ability to CONCENTRATE to the point where people swear that I am in another galaxy! I absolutely love to TUNE PEOPLE OUT. I see them as unneccessary distractions most of the time. Just like my PERSONAL SPACE, I enjoy my MENTAL SPACE and you need to be INVITED IN to enter it. For example, if you come closer than an arm’s length of me, you are violating my PERSONAL SPACE. FYI guys, when you stand directly in front of me and look me up and down that is MAJORLY VIOLATING MY PERSONAL SPACE UNLESS I FIND YOU EXTREMELY HOT. Most people DO NOT UNDERSTAND this concept and that is why we are NOT FRIENDS. FYI–It is NOT an ATTITUDE it just IS.