So... don't answer your emails and texts right away. And "work with your boss" to eliminate unproductive tasks.

Got it.

Thanks for simplifying!

Yes, but at the same time "If you can't explain yourself in a single email, consider calling, texting or meeting in person instead." - so you do exactly to your co-workers what they do to you - in an effort to make yourself more efficient?

No, the real lesson was don't procrastinate. "She also committed herself to systematically completing, without procrastination, her daily task list and to completely clearing her email inbox and workspace on a regular basis."

that's what's at the end, but you skipped the beginning juicy bit: don't try to multitask. make a clear and concrete to-do list, and chunk out time to focus only on completing one item at a time. not answering your emails/texts and having your boss help eliminate distractions are just two small but helpful ways to stay on-task.

Nearly half of the article regarded simply not jumping to answer texts and emails.

Want to REALLY make more efficient use of time? Just read my two line summary and skip the article.

that sounds a bit wrong.. but then again, i agree with it

The problem isn't that you don't know what to do. It's that you know and yet can't bring yourself to do it.

From the article: small adjustments to how employees think about work

The key word there is: think. It's surprisingly hard to change what you think. Even if there was a feature for incoming email to not interrupt you, you still wouldn't turn the feature on.