Mindfulness at work
You don't need to meditate at the office. But you can work differently.
You don't need to meditate at the office. But you can work differently.
Rapid task switching can make work harder to reconstruct and can hide where interruptions come from. Research on media multitasking is not a universal verdict on a person, so use it as a reason to observe your own work rather than as a label.
Three simple practices for working with presence:
Notification-free time blocks. Choose an interval you can protect, turn off avoidable notifications and record what you completed. There is no universal 90-minute requirement.
The pause between meetings. Two minutes before each meeting to breathe and arrive fully, not mentally finishing the previous one.
The closing question. At the end of the day: "What did I really do today?" Not what you got through, but what you accomplished with attention.
If phone checks are the interruption you keep seeing, compare a timer with a phone-first focus app alternative that adds a pause before access.
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