How do you stay on task?

If you do your schooling or work from home, What are ways you stay on task. I do my schooling here at home and it is all online.

You might find this a bit strange but having chris' stream open tends to keep me on task. I find that when I see someone else working, it motivates me to do my work also.

And having two monitors helps a lot as well because it increases your productivity and lets you multitask.

Anyways, what are some ways you stay on task while working. Would love to hear them

-Zach Kowalchuk

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Comment by Zach Kowalchuk on November 19, 2008 at 3:13pm: @sphere Is stream desk any good. I could never get it to work on vista.

Comment by SphereCat1 on November 19, 2008 at 1:12pm: You know, I've never thought about that before, but I am more productive whan the stream is open, even if it's minimized. Maybe it's the less logical part of my brain going "Oh, I can hear/see someone else, so they can hear/see me! Better start working!"

Whatever works. *Opens Streamdesk*

Comment by Zach Kowalchuk on November 19, 2008 at 8:21am: @Steven

I found myself getting twice as much work done when seeing chris work.

Comment by MrBen on November 19, 2008 at 6:56am: The only way I can keep on track is using rewards. Whenever I'm sat in front of a PC, I struggle to keep to what I should be doing rather than browsing randomly - right now is a perfect example, I should be filling in a very tedious form for a client! I set myself a target, say doing a couple of pieces of work, and then let myself browse for five minutes, or whatever.

Comment by Smogsy on November 19, 2008 at 12:39am: setting hours of the day i must do this, this and this
relax listen to music whilst working keeps me productive.