• Turn off the new email chime. It distracts your attention. Same goes for the "downloading progress bar."
  • Play a game of limiting your email checking to once or twice a day. (Do you then notice that you're addicted to email?) What is that experience like? What is the underlying emotion involved in email-addiction? Fear? Loneliness?
  • Try driving to work without listening to the radio and resting attention in the here-and-now.

This multitasking tip originally appeared in the Corporate Coaching International newsletter. Dr. Jeremy Hunter teaches leaders to cultivate self-awareness and develop skills that allow them to work and live at their best. He is co-founder of the Quality of Life Research Center at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management.