-Life is often full of distractions that are beyond our control. Someone walks up to our work-space and needs our attention at that moment. An email thread that we thought was settled becomes a heated discussion and needs our attention. Something happens at home and now our minds are split between work and home. Whatever the cause may be there are times when our attention isn't where we feel it should be and we feel pulled in every direction at once.
+Life is full of distractions. So many things want our attention, and many of these distractions are outside of our control. Someone walks up to our work-space and needs our attention at that moment. An email thread that we thought was settled becomes a heated discussion our attention is drawn to it. Something happens at home and now our mind is split between our work tasks and worrying about what's happening at home. Whatever the cause may be there are times when our attention isn't where we want it to be and we feel pulled in every direction at once.
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+This is where the containers are most helpful. If something interrupts the container we can determine if it's more important than the work we're doing. If we determine that it is more important than what we're currently doing we can stop the container with the understanding that we'll return to the work once we've handled the interruption. If the interruption is not more important then we can agree (both with whomever is interrupting us, or with ourselves) that our focus needs to be here with the work until the container ends. We'll be able to give that other thing our full attention once the container ends. We'll also try to split our attention between the work and the interruption, and will give each of them our full attention at the appropriate time.