Updating My Most Popular System for 2024

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  • čas pƙidĂĄn 15. 07. 2024
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    TWO new ways to use the distraction method, for the price of one đŸ€‘
    CHAPTERS:
    00:00 intro
    00:55 what is the distraction method?
    01:38 a quick note on agile
    02:30 original distraction method
    03:57 using the method to talk to your boss
    06:43 adding personal distractions into the mix
    09:01 distraction method in weekly and daily format
    10:40 planning vs actual spread
    12:35 the way I use it now
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Komentáƙe • 49

  • @PockyxChan
    @PockyxChan Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +234

    not me watching this at work instead of doing my job lol

    • @elizabethr4107
      @elizabethr4107 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +2

      😂

    • @monamai8660
      @monamai8660 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +13

      It’s called training on the job, you keep learning and improving!

    • @vwjmkv
      @vwjmkv Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +3

      Especially in academia. Professional development.

    • @CherryAckerman
      @CherryAckerman Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +2

      Legend! 🎉

    • @scf7334
      @scf7334 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +1

      Not you literally stealing from your employer, lol! 🙄 It’s just so hilarious that you’re literally stealing from your employer, isn’t it? As a business owner myself, you’d be fired. I’m not paying employees to watch CZcams videos.

  • @alex14496
    @alex14496 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +20

    Finally a video on work planners 👏 No one does these!

  • @lbr88x30
    @lbr88x30 Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +2

    I'm so happy to see another person who splits work from personal journal. 😊

  • @adhderhere
    @adhderhere Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +54

    The distraction method seems to be pretty ADHD friendly!!! I think I'm gonna try this, thank you for explaining how it works!!! I guess my distraction lists will be so long, cause everything that comes to my mind gets me out of what I'm doing.

    • @ravenoctober9936
      @ravenoctober9936 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +2

      Same here except im autistic! (No adhd diagnosis) and often get distracted with special interests or more or less ruminations or mental tangents.

    • @adhderhere
      @adhderhere Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

      @@ravenoctober9936 I hope this method works for you too!! It's always good to hace a place to write all those thoughts and ideas and tasks that come to our minds 😊

    • @brittanybogle1953
      @brittanybogle1953 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +9

      I've also created a "squirrely thoughts" page in my planner. So when I have an intrusive thought, idea, or impulsive purchase need, I write it there to come back to later.

    • @adhderhere
      @adhderhere Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

      @@brittanybogle1953 Great!!!

  • @MommaBeeb
    @MommaBeeb Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +58

    I often feel like I get distracted with the limited focus time I have as a stay at home mom, so this sounds like a great way to stay accountable to myself to use my time in a more productive/intentional way.

    • @MommaBeeb
      @MommaBeeb Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci +5

      @@merleginsbergofficial I hope you didn’t mean this the way I think you did, because I have a “real job.” I do work that I don’t get paid for and it’s easily the most important job I will ever have. The inability to get my own things done in the first year was basically impossible, because I don’t get “time off,” like vacations or sick time. At least those with a “real job” or as I would say, work outside the home, get break times and clock in/clock out.

    • @daisiesandpandas1218
      @daisiesandpandas1218 Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci +1

      I think it's a troll. The insult wasn't even original so that's how one can tell.

  • @bethandbeyond1
    @bethandbeyond1 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +26

    I use a similar system. It's called my detour list and it's a game-changer when discussing priorities. I love this update!

  • @chasingpelicans8205
    @chasingpelicans8205 Pƙed 16 dny

    this is liiiiiiiiterally genius!!!!! one of my imposter syndrome things is feeling like i was never accomplishing anything, but what actually kept happening was people kept coming in with last minute things for me to solve, taking away from planned tasks!!!!!

  • @missfl0werstar
    @missfl0werstar Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +10

    Rachel, I'm so grateful for your insights. Our jobs (yay, academia! đŸ™‹đŸŒâ€â™€ïž), personalities and planning styles are so similar, it's uncanny. So I've been drinking up your wisdom and I'll definitely try this too. I'm constantly trying to push for a promotion (ugh, academia 🙄) and this will help me loads to explain my many hours of overtime and long waiting list of projects. Thank you, please keep up the awesome content. đŸ€“

  • @Nancy-mm3uc
    @Nancy-mm3uc Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +12

    Hello Rachel!! I’ve just found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binge watching all of your videos in preparation for the new year. Your videos have really helped me figure out what my planning needs are and how to implement them into my new planner for 2024! I’m using the undated daily planner by Papier ( I’m mainly using it for its weekly spreads though!). A big need of mine was a planner that aids me in accomplishing my goals by having check-ins and trackers throughout (aka tools to keep me accountable and aware of how much progress I’ve made). Tonight I plan on doing the Sterling Ink goal matrix thing (lol) on a piece of notebook paper and cross examining what I come up with alongside a different goal setting system I like to use (an audit of “the 7 areas of life”). Anyway, sorry for the long comment, I just wanted to thank you for your videos-especially, the one about goal planning with anxiety-they have been my number one planning resource going into this next year! So, thank you for all of your hard work! I know we all really appreciate it! 💕 Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you introduced and helped implement your distraction method to your work place for everyone to use? That is AWESOME, girl!! Great job!! 🎉

  • @monicagimenes2506
    @monicagimenes2506 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +1

    This is such a good idea. I'm finishing up my dissertation, a huge self-directed project, and it can be useful to keep track of distractions that take over my writing time sometimes. I'm not even talking about Netflix or cleaning the house.😂 I mean there are research or teaching related tasks that sometimes get in the way of meeting my writing goals. This method can help keep me accountable and compassionate with myself. I will try in 2024. 😊

  • @jordanxfile
    @jordanxfile Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +2

    This more detailed video about the distraction method made more sense to me. I got it much better. In fact, I am thinking of ways to use it for my work too. I work at a global CRO, and we use weekly timecards to track our time and can enter comments etc. It is really the task I hate the most 😂

  • @lovinglife3954
    @lovinglife3954 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

    Great idea and I have been trying to figure out how to do something like this. One thing: Many years ago, my manager warned me not to mix personal and professional documentation, at the time my Franklin planner, since anything work related is basically company property and can be subpoenaed or confiscated. For this reason, I would not add social media or doom scrolling to anything related to work. You’ve given me some great ideas about how to use this distraction logging.

  •  Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +8

    Wow Rachelle, this was so inspiring and helpful, thank you! I might try this as well, and also as a person who used to manage a small team, I have to say you would be a dream employee. Somebody as organized and accountable as you is an absolute dream to have in a team!

  • @redcurlplans2979
    @redcurlplans2979 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

    I just loved learning about this method, it seems to be so useful! I will try it for sure, thank you for the inspo :)

  • @addhoc256
    @addhoc256 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci +1

    Yes! Some years ago, instead of planning, or on top of planning what I want todo in the future: wich i did do only 20% . So then i deceided to just log what i actually did instead for a while. And this gave me important insight in how long things take, when ihave energy and focus. So I dont set myself up for failure. What i thought of asdistraction was in fact a very important task (brainstorming because the goal wasnt clear and the steps were to big)

  • @sweethaven5
    @sweethaven5 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +1

    4:00 WOW GIRLFRIEND, you have a LOT on your plate!! My dream job was a secretary at a grade school, unfortunately life caught up with me, marriage, pregnancy, divorce , work, and held-up at work for money. I certainly enjoy seeing younger people get that job and explain what or how they do it! I am certainly proud of you!! Good luck and thanks for sharing!! from OhiođŸ‡ș🇾

  • @CassieJournals
    @CassieJournals Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +3

    I LOVE this method, however the amount of distractions in my job would require me to use the weeks spreads 😂😭 that said, it’s an eye opener for me to think about just the sheer amount of distractions that happen on a daily basis and a place for me to start tackling my daily distractions. Thank you!

  • @Stormbrise
    @Stormbrise Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +1

    Hey your channel got a shout out as one of Helens favorites on the TCMC. It has been my favorite since you came on the scene over a year ago now.

  • @ashleykennedy2824
    @ashleykennedy2824 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +1

    Thank you for this update! I tried to watch the original video but ADHD. 😅 I really appreciate this more direct explanation.
    I'm a homeschooling mom and am really excited to implement this for my own accountability. You've given me some great ideas on how to expand my current bujo layout to include this. Thank you!

  • @numberedpages
    @numberedpages Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +4

    This was super helpful. Very applicable for both adhd and software. At my work we create github issues, and triage them twice per week - frequently enough we can prioritize things as a team when they aren’t genuine emergencies. This includes small things that would be ‘quick’ to do (we call these papercuts), which helps me resist doing those immediately when they come up, if they’re not urgent.

    • @numberedpages
      @numberedpages Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +1

      Note: ‘quick’ is in scare quotes because there’s a tendency towards over-optimism when estimating this.

  • @wifeofkhan9375
    @wifeofkhan9375 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci

    this is so cool. It’s great that you put it in the agile context, genuinely helpful!

  • @hibellla
    @hibellla Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

    I’m thinking most of my stuff at work isn’t really about distractions but we do get handled a lot of work and then are also asked to meet these yearly expectations / goals but it’s hard to track how my utilization can affect how much I can contribute to those side projects / goals or just extra stuff I get done and I end up thinking I haven’t accomplished much by EOY. I might use this method to track how I’m contributing go those stretch goals each day / month

  • @ChantelleArts
    @ChantelleArts Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +2

    this looks like a really interesting system ❀❀

  • @silvijap7
    @silvijap7 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci +5

    Rachelle, this is genius. Thank you so much for sharing this. The polarization between priorities and distractions is not a new concept, but the way you present it, and application in a familiar format of planner, is exactly what I needed.
    I am applying it immediately.

  • @annelyle5474
    @annelyle5474 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci

    I may have to implement parts of this for my day-job - our project is spread between the UK, US and Asia, so I don't always know what my overseas colleagues are up to and distractions can land on my plate out of nowhere 😂

  • @cls3282
    @cls3282 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +7

    I'm a software engineer who is obsessed with both planners and agile/scrum ♄ curious if you have thoughts on Kanban vs agile. I've been trying out the GTD method recently and it feels more like Kanban, vs traditional monthly/weekly/daily planning reminds me more of scrum.

  • @lanak7038
    @lanak7038 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci +1

    Not me getting distracted while watching this video

  • @caraamethyst6956
    @caraamethyst6956 Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

    This video made me realize my office job is more laidback than I thought 😅

  • @MisaKaye
    @MisaKaye Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci

    My old job did not leave me a single minute to note things down and wondered how we are are so busy 🙄

  • @lilithmaeangel
    @lilithmaeangel Pƙed 7 měsĂ­ci

    Working on my APE, flushed as soon as the weeks came out 😔

  • @TheWishDragon
    @TheWishDragon Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

    Damn... doom scrolling and social media... I don't get on my phone for the 8 hours or more that I'm on shift, I would be in so much trouble if I did that. I would be fired. I do get destracted but by other random work requests which can take me down a whole rabbit hole.