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Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to figure out the source of your interruptions. And if you are

interrupting yourself, do your best to stop it. Today's tip, like another one this week, comes from

psychologist Tessa West. She's a professor at New York University, an expert on interpersonal communication at work,

and the author of the book Job Therapy, Finding Work That Works for You.

If you're like a lot of knowledge workers, you may feel like you are spinning your wheels at work,

because you are constantly being interrupted. Of course, anytime someone says something is

always happening that raises my eyebrows, I mean really, always, how many times are we really

talking? This is one reason to track time, so we know exactly what is happening in a given workday.

So you won't be surprised that West advises a version of this.

People who feel concerned about interruptions should track which tasks are getting interrupted for a few days,

and then ask yourself who or what interrupted you.

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