If you chase two rabbits, both will escape!

When was the last time you finished reading a book in a day or watching a movie without checking your phone or even attending a meeting without occasionally surfing the web? Respect has a new meaning. If someone gives you attention for 5 minutes you are lucky. Make eye contact without phone check or notification. Yes, that is a new definition of respect.

Today, we live and raise children in a world of information overload but lack of attention. Where concentration is the exception and lack of concentration is the norm. The stories we tell children are shorter than the games we play. Everything is immediately and in a capsule. Because we "think" we don't have time. Because we are in a hurry. And there are so many things and people out there, taking away part of us, attention, concentration, and time. And most of them, doing that without being able to get our permission !!

How many people allow this to happen to their possessions? Let others take the phone / wallet / car without our permission? Why do we allow that to happen with our attention, focus and time?

Let's take a test: While reading this article, how many browser windows are open now? How many emails are being written? How many chat windows are open? How many presentations are in progress?

Because the slowness, inefficiency is crawling into our lives. Attention becomes shorter, memory is harder and more errors are made. We affect quality. The quality of work, the quality of relationships and the quality of life.

This is a presentation about the diseases of the internet? Absolutely not. World Wide Web, is a very powerful tool, like any powerful tool, it needs to be managed to work for us. Today, it is our slave.

Is there a way to do that? Always have.

Doing a single task: this doesn't mean you can't juggle or do many things in a day. You can still do many tasks. But when you do a task, give it all the concentration you have. Show absolute concern, to the person you are talking to, in the project you are working on. At the end of the mission, you can move to the next mission. (And see the error rate arises!)

Eliminate false urgency: Getting the internet to work for you. Turn off all notifications (notifications). Only online when you want, not for notifications. Do not sink into the information from the network. What notifications do for you? To know faster than your colleague a second, who won the Oscars this year or the boss of a company died or became a billionaire? Today, everyone has and will access information. It's free. Notifications (notifications) create a false sense of urgency. That only you have by new news announcement a few minutes ago. This is a big competition? Not unless you work in the media or a journalist.

Spend time on social networks: Except don't check it first in the morning. Choose the person you want to meet and what you want to read. It not only removes messy things. Lead your life and erase the excesses of information, things, people who are not valuable to your life. And focus on valuable things. The choice is yours. Please choose quality.

And create gaps in your life for important things.