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Staying focused at work

I'm currently reading the book, Upgrade Your Life by Gina Trapani in order to refine my life, specifically my efficiency at work.  It has 50 "Hacks" from the website Lifehacker.com to help you become a much more efficient person, to take back control of both your personal and professional life.

Since I am a software developer, 95% of my time is spent on a computer and over the years, I've found a lot of informational sites that I LOVE but spend entirely too much time browsing while at work and my work has suffered accordingly.   Therefore, I've decided to implement one of the suggestions in the book, Hack #36, "Limit Visits to Time Wasting Websites" by using the firefox plugin LeechBlock (developer site).  This allows you to place websites into categories that you can than block access during specific hours on specific days or even limit the time per hour you are allowed to visit them.

Pure genius!  I've already installed it on my work machine and have set up the following categories:
  • Social Networks (Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Digg.com, etc)
  • Informational (Wikipedia, Imdb, etc)
  • Online Stores (Amazon.com, Apple.com, ThinkGeek.com)
  • Gaming (Anything WoW related)
  • Online Video (youtube.com, video.google.com)

I'll try this for at least a week and see how things go.   I highly recommend this book, there are so many great ideas for anyone that uses computers on a regular basis.




Limit Visits to Time-Wasting Web Sites


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