Bob Walsh, an author over at To-Done, has written up a great article on a work process titled, Butterfly Stroke Productivity. This is a great plan of attack when it comes to dealing with multiple projects and being productive with your work. Distractions face us on a minute by minute basis and dealing with them appropriately becomes a key to being a more productive worker.

Here is a snippet from the article:

Source: Butterfly Stroke Productivity

Here's how it works. As you plan each day's work, focus on the 2 or 3 things which you're going to have to really work at for an hour or two each to get done. These should be things you want to reserve your best efforts for because they will make the most difference in your life.

Now, make a 60-120 minute appointment for each. You can make it an Outlook Appointment, a Task Appointment in the program I sell or an entry in your daytimer. Leave time between these task appointments so you can come up for air, re-orientate and deal with other, less important stuff.

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For the next 90 minutes or so, no email, no phone, no web, no anything that is going to be a distraction. I'm head down and pulling. I have a plan for what I'm trying to do; clearly restating my objective and the goals that furthers dampens procrastination and I know that at least for the next little while I'm going incommunicado to get some work done. Then I set my (physical) desktop timer and go for the Flow.

Check out the article as I feel it will be worth your while.