Church IT – Supporting ministry with IT

One of the dangers of computers is trying to do more than one thing at a time. I suppose that’s always been the case but working with the email and instant messenger running, not to mention the blogroll (and the forums I’m supposed to keep an eye on), it’s hard to stay focused on any one thing. And that’s not mentioning the real people I work with, who are far more interesting and worthy of my time.

I was very interested by this article that popped up the other day (via Lifehacker if memory serves) about how to concentrate.

It got me thinking that many successful people really know how to concentrate on one thing. There’s certainly enough tips online about booking meetings with yourself to avoid interuptions.

Perhaps I shall cut down on the distractions, people know my telephone number if it’s really urgent. Curiously enough I sometimes miss the old days of essays at Uni, when I could just focus on one thing for several hours and not get distracted.

Then again, I’ve got a lot of words to write on one subject tomorrow, so I may well get the chance after all!