The Most Important Task Of The Day Often Loses To Whatever Pings Next
Most busy days run on reacting to whatever arrives next. This page calls that pattern the “Reaction Cycle”, and Dr. Steve G. Jones’s self-hypnosis track is designed to help you step out of it and give your best attention to the work that matters most, one task at a time.
By Dr. Steve G. Jones, Ed.D.
Self-hypnosis MP3 for daytime listening
An Inbox At Zero And The Report Still Untouched
Dr. Steve G. Jones, Ed.D. Licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist, and life and business coach to top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs.
Dr. Jones made Increase Productivity At Work for one of the most common problems at work: a day that’s busy from start to finish and still leaves the most important task undone.
The track’s aim fits in one of its own lines: “You give your best attention to the work that matters most, one task at a time, and at the end of each day you can see what you have made.”
Most people grow up hearing a few explanations for a day that gets away from them:
“Some people are just more organized.”
“A good worker can juggle ten things at once.”
“You just need to work longer hours.”
The second one even sounds like a compliment, and the track disagrees with every one of them.
When the important work slips, people tend to blame one of these:
Laziness
Too little time
A lack of willpower
The wrong job
The track points somewhere else. It starts every workday with one simple question, asked before you open your email or your messages: “What is the one task that matters most today?”
That question answers a pattern this page calls the “Reaction Cycle”. A message arrives and you answer it. A notification pops up and you check it. Someone stops by with a quick question, and by the time it’s dealt with, two more emails have landed. Each reaction seems small, and together they decide what the whole day gets spent on.
Working longer hours can’t switch it off, because the Reaction Cycle simply fills the extra hours too.
What breaks it is something this page calls the “Focus Fence”, and the track builds it in two ways:
It takes you into deep relaxation first, in a quiet woodworking workshop on an autumn morning, so the suggestions reach you while you’re calm and following Steve’s voice.
It builds the habits that protect your attention, so your important work gets your fresh mind first.
Dr. Jones’s own working life once went badly off track. Before he became a self-made multimillionaire, he was $80,000 in credit card debt and living out of an office he was about to lose. How he got back on track comes later on this page.
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Now picture a workday that starts with your most important task, while your mind is fresh. Notifications are off where your job allows it, your phone is in a drawer, and the big job gets your full attention until you come to a natural break. The messages still get answered, at the times you set for them, and at the end of the day you can see exactly what you achieved.
Left alone, the Reaction Cycle tends to tighten its grip:
1The important task moves to the afternoon, then to tomorrow.
2Every interruption makes the next one easier to accept.
3Work spills into the evening, where rest and family time should be.
4And progress on the work that matters slows to the pace of your inbox.
Career Detours, Failed Ventures And Collection Agencies At The Door
Dr. Steve G. Jones, Clinical Hypnotherapist
Today Dr. Steve G. Jones manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP, and he serves as a life and business coach for top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs. His own working life didn’t start anywhere near there.
He lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his father, who battled alcohol abuse.
Later on, he went through a lot of career detours and failed business ventures. He soon found himself $80,000 in credit card debt, and financial institutions and collection agencies were beating down on his door.
He held on as long as he could. After he was evicted from his own place, he lived out of his office, and he was about to lose that too.
The place he worked had become the only place he had left.
How he turned it around comes further down. First, the three things most people believe about a productive day.
Three Beliefs About Productivity That Keep The Inbox In Charge
You’ll hear these at work, at home and in plenty of business books, and each one makes the Reaction Cycle harder to see.
“Some people are just more organized.”
Being organized is a set of habits, and habits can be built. The track builds a few of them, and ties each one to a moment you meet every working day, such as sitting down to start and the last minutes before you leave.
One question to start the day
Before you open your email or your messages, you ask which one task matters most today, write it at the top of the page and begin it while your mind is at its freshest.
“A good worker can juggle ten things at once.”
Multitasking looks impressive, and the track sets a different standard. When you begin your important task, you turn your notifications off if your job allows it, put your phone face down in a drawer or out of reach, and close everything except the one task in front of you.
Then you work on that one task with your full attention until you come to a natural break. You get up and stretch for a few minutes before you begin the next block of work.
“You just need to work longer hours.”
This one sounds the most dedicated of the three, and it feeds the Reaction Cycle, because more hours only give the interruptions more room to fill.
A clear end to the workday
In the last minutes of each workday, you write down where you left off and tomorrow’s one important task, and you look back over what you finished. Then you close your work for the day and leave it there.
In the track’s words, your evening belongs to you and to the people and the things you enjoy, and you come back the next morning rested and ready.
Why The Small, Quick Tasks Keep Winning The Day
The Reaction Cycle doesn’t feel like a problem while it’s happening. Every reply is useful, every check is quick and every request seems reasonable on its own. The trouble is the order. Your mind is freshest at the start of the workday, which is when the most important task should get done.
The Reaction Cycle
Reacting to whatever arrives next, a message, a notification or a quick request, so the day’s most important work keeps getting pushed back.
Picture someone keeping a row of plates spinning on sticks. Every time one starts to wobble, they rush over and give it another turn. They’re busy every second, and they never get to sit down and eat. In a working day, the plates look like this:
The email that just came in
A notification on your phone
A colleague’s “quick question”
The small task that’s easier than the big one
Each time a plate wobbles, you react, and your attention leaves the job at hand. Getting back into the flow of the work takes time, and by then the next plate is wobbling.
So getting more done starts with deciding which plates get your attention, and when.
Protect Your Attention Before The Day Takes It
The Focus Fence
This page’s name for the habits the track builds while you listen: notifications off where your job allows it, your phone out of reach, messages answered at the times you set, and a notepad beside your keyboard for anything that pops into your head.
Whenever a new task or idea arrives in the middle of your work, you write it down in one line and go straight back to what you were doing. In the track’s words, the notepad holds it safely for you, so your mind is free for the task in front of you.
The plates still get tended at the times you set, while the important work gets your fresh mind first.
With the Focus Fence in place, two things change:
Your most important task gets done first, while your mind is fresh.
Each workday ends with the satisfaction of seeing what you achieved.
“How Often Does The Reaction Cycle Pull Me Away?”
There’s a quick way to feel it, and it takes seven seconds.
Think of the most important task on your list for tomorrow. Press start, and for seven seconds think about that one task and nothing else.
ONETASKFIRST
7seconds
Did anything else pull at you? Tap whatever turned up:
Whatever turns up says nothing about you or your work. It’s only a game, not a test.
Pulls like these get stronger with a few habits that look like good work.
Habits That Look Like Hard Work And Feed The Reaction Cycle
Three of them keep it going without anyone noticing:
Keeping every notification on. It feels like being responsive, and it hands the order of your day to whoever messages next.
Saving the hardest task for later. Starting with the easy things feels productive, and it spends the fresh part of your mind on work that could wait.
Carrying everything yourself. It feels responsible, and it leaves less room for the work only you can do. The track has you talk it over with your manager when the work is more than one person can carry, and share the work where you can.
Saying “yes, right now” to every quick question feeds it too. On the track, you look up, smile and offer a time to come back to the person, perhaps as soon as you finish this part. Then you do come back to them, so the people you work with learn to respect your focused time.
The Turning Point That Became The Dream Life Mastery Program
Living out of an office he was about to lose, Steve reached a turning point. He discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, and to put systems in place that got his life back on track.
Using a combination of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques and a specific framework for happiness and success, he developed the Dream Life Mastery program for getting the results he wanted.
Notice the order, with the mind first and the systems after it. Increase Productivity At Work works on your working day in the same order.
Today he is a self-made multimillionaire. He manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP, and at one time he had 30,000 students enrolled in his programs.
$80,000 in credit card debtLiving out of his office30,000 students at one time
A Quiet Workshop First, Then Your Working Day
The track works in two stages, and between them they’re designed to build these six habits:
Your most important task firstOne question before your email, the answer written at the top of the page, and the task begun while your mind is fresh.
One task at a timeNotifications off where your job allows, your phone out of reach, and only the one task in front of you until a natural break.
Set times for messagesWhen the pull to check arrives in the middle of a task, you notice it with a smile and keep going, then answer everything at the times you set.
A notepad beside the keyboardNew tasks and ideas go down in one line, and a colleague’s quick question gets a kind offer of a time to come back to them.
The first small stepWhen a big task feels heavy and the easy jobs start to call, you ask what the first small step is, and you take it now.
A clear end to the dayWhere you left off and tomorrow’s one important task on paper, a look back at what you finished, and work left at work.
A calm, focused mind first
The first stage relaxes you deeply. After three slow breaths, you step into a quiet woodworking workshop at the edge of a wood, early on an autumn morning, with golden light across a long bench and every tool in its place. Ten long strokes of an old hand plane take you deeper, and beside the bench stands a finished table that was made one part at a time.
Relaxing first means the suggestions reach you with the day’s noise turned down, while you’re calm and following the sound of Steve’s voice.
This first stage is deep hypnotic relaxation, and it opens every listen.
New working habits, one by one
The second stage builds the way you work, from the first question of the morning to the way you close the day. Several times Steve goes quiet while you see yourself doing it, for example sitting down at the start of a working day, or facing a big task at the very moment the easy jobs begin to call you.
Couldn’t you just read a productivity list and follow it? Plenty of people do, until the old reactions take over again. The track rehearses the new habits while you’re relaxed, and it ties each one to a moment you already meet every working day. The swaps look like this:
The old reactionThe new habit
“I’ll just check this message first.”“What is the one task that matters most today?”
“I can do three things at once.”“This one task gets my full attention.”
“That big job will have to wait.”“What is the first small step?”
This second stage is self-hypnosis, and together the two stages build the Focus Fence.
Your Best Attention For The Work That Matters Most
It’s called Increase Productivity At Work.
This self-hypnosis track is designed to help you give your best attention to the work that matters most, one task at a time, and to end each workday able to see what you have made.
Breaks the Reaction CycleYou stop reacting to whatever arrives next and start each day with the task that matters most.
Builds the Focus FenceNotifications off where your job allows, messages at the times you set, and a notepad for everything else.
Ends each day satisfiedYou write down tomorrow’s one important task, look back at what you finished and leave work at work.
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The track looks after the person doing the work, too, with short breaks between blocks of work and an evening that belongs to you.
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What Would It Be Worth To End Each Workday Satisfied?
Think about closing your laptop knowing the big job got done, or looking back over a month and seeing real progress on the work that matters most to you.
Breaking the Reaction Cycle could give you:
Mornings that start with your most important task, while your mind is fresh.
Set times for messages, so the inbox stops deciding your day.
Evenings for family, friends, hobbies and rest, with work left at work.
Dr. Jones coaches top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs. This track puts his approach to productive work into an MP3 you can play at home, for one payment of $29.95.
Spread over the 21 days of daily listening Steve suggests, that’s about $1.43 a day.
Increase Productivity At Work Is $29.95, Paid Once
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Three Weeks Of Daily Listening
Steve suggests staying with one track for 21 days. Each listen takes about 38 minutes with the music, so it fits into a lunch break or a quiet hour before or after work.
Day 1Download the MP3, find a quiet place where nothing will disturb you, put on your headphones and press play.
Every dayListen again. The track ends by counting you back up, so you open your eyes wide awake and ready to continue your day.
Day 21Keep going for longer if you like, or keep it as the track you turn to whenever the old reactions creep back.
Increase Productivity At Work
The Most Important Task Of The Day Often Loses To Whatever Pings Next
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A Month From Now, Who Will Be Deciding What Your Workday Is Spent On?
It’s easy to carry on as before, answering everything as it arrives and hoping next week is quieter.
Meanwhile the Reaction Cycle keeps the plates spinning. The important task slides to the afternoon, then to tomorrow, and the evenings fill up with the work the day didn’t leave room for.
Or you can start today. Put on your headphones in a quiet moment, press play and let the track build the Focus Fence while you relax.
Keep listening every day and your workday starts to run in a different order. The most important task gets your fresh mind first, messages wait for their set times, and you finish the day able to see what you achieved.
Straight Answers About Increase Productivity At Work
What is the Reaction Cycle?
It’s this page’s name for the habit of answering whatever arrives next, a message, a notification or a quick request, so the day’s most important work keeps getting pushed back.
What is the Focus Fence?
It’s this page’s name for the habits the track builds to protect your attention: your most important task first while your mind is fresh, notifications off where your job allows it, your phone out of reach, messages at the times you set, and a notepad for anything that pops into your head.
When should I listen?
At any time of day when you’re safe and no one and nothing will disturb you, as Dr. Jones says at the start of the recording, such as a lunch break or a quiet hour before or after work. Never play it while driving or in a moving vehicle, and if you’re under a doctor’s care, check with your physician before using it. The track ends by counting you back up, wide awake. Listen every day for 21 days, as Steve suggests.
How fast will I see results?
Everyone is different. Many people feel calm and relaxed from the very first listen, and the new habits build each time you play it. That is why Steve suggests listening every day for a minimum of two weeks, and longer if you like.
Does your program cater specifically to me?
Yes. The program is built on broad human psychology, with techniques, tips and methods that people have used for thousands of years, so it suits adults of any age. Whether you're 21 or 61, it is never too early or too late to start building better habits.
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Get Your Important Tasks Done And End Each Workday Satisfied
The Reaction Cycle takes your best hours a few minutes at a time, and because it keeps you busy, it’s easy to mistake it for hard work.
Dr. Jones went from living out of an office he was about to lose to running 22 certification programs in hypnosis and NLP, and the change started in his mind. That’s where this track goes to work, too.
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A busy day that leaves the big task undone has a cause you can change.
The Reaction Cycle is the habit of reacting to whatever arrives next, which keeps pushing your important work back.
Increase Productivity At Work builds the Focus Fence: your most important task first, notifications off and a notepad for everything else.
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