Productivity is critical in this business, but its so hard with all the distractions. Cell phone, email, messaging, etc.

In high school and college I got good grades but was a famous procrastinator. Sort of learned that if I put the studying off just long enough, I was amazingly productive with the limited time I had remaining.

While I don't recommend that strategy, I did take some keys away from it. Zero distraction, 100% focus, and wow could I knock out a bunch of...