{"id":273,"date":"2012-02-01T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2015-11-30T21:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:00:55","slug":"just-say-no-to-desktop-notifications-other-dings-and-beeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/just-say-no-to-desktop-notifications-other-dings-and-beeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No to Desktop Notifications &#038; Other Dings and Beeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"274\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/just-say-no-to-desktop-notifications-other-dings-and-beeps\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doingwhatmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"213,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"focus-photo-office copy-sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doingwhatmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/doingwhatmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-274\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" title=\"focus-photo-office copy-sm\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/focus-photo-office-copy-sm.jpg?resize=128%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"You need focus in order to accomplish big things.\" width=\"128\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>I receive e-mail through a Google apps interface that provides a calendar and docs, and handles mail in Gmail style. Every time I&#8217;ve logged in recently, a banner over my inbox has invited me to\u00a0receive\u00a0desktop notifications of new e-mail as it arrives. I&#8217;m getting offers for push notifications from many of the apps on my iPad and iPhone, too.<\/p>\n<p>No, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>I value my focus too much to have it fractured by an incessant cacophony of dings, tweets, beeps, and pop-ups. I believe in doing what the name of this blog suggests&#8211; doing what matters, making it pay. Allowing ephemeral interruptions to destroy the power of focus would make this mission impossible.<\/p>\n<p>You really do have a choice in how much to accomplish each day. You don&#8217;t have to check e-mail more than a few times. You don&#8217;t have to respond immediately. You don&#8217;t have to instantly react to every request or reminder that shows up on your screen. You can just say no.<\/p>\n<p>Deny all requests to receive push notifications. Turn off all e-mail sound effects and notification pop-ups except for specific event reminders you set. Set a time to check and respond to e-mail and do it then. If something is urgent, pick up the phone. Save social media for after the big projects of the day have been completed (time-sensitive reminders and announcements should be prescheduled so that nothing preempts creative time.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to complete a creative project&#8211; even a blog post or newsletter&#8211; you need to focus. I have the 3D reminder you see in the photo directly across from my desk (my husband is a machinist and made it for me), because it&#8217;s tempting to get distracted and waste my creative time doing things that belong in the little fragments left over after the important projects have been completed.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you need or want to get done, focus can help you make it happen. Set a few boundaries and see how much you can accomplish!<\/p>\n<p>*For an older article on a similar topic, see <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingwhatmatters.com\/telephone-rules-for-homeschools\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Telephone Rules for Homeschools<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> on my <em>Taking Time for Things that Matter<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I receive e-mail through a Google apps interface that provides a calendar and docs, and handles mail in Gmail style. 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