http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=185
An Excerpt wrote:When I am up against a deadline and I absolutely, definitely have to get on with my work, I use a few tactics to force myself to concentrate:
Switch off email. I don’t start Outlook (or if I do, I disable all the notifications that tell me I have new mail).
Isolate myself. I use Bose noise-canceling headphones but don’t plug them into anything. The silence really is golden.