Use them.  All of them.  Make sure you use them simultaneously.  This may sound normal and you’re probably saying “Duh, Sarah”, but truly – if you use your senses at the same time, you can get more done.

For people who have FADD (Fake ADD… never been tested but would be willing to bet I have some form of it), this is an awesome skill.

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Simultaneous Sensing 101:

1.    Feel hard surfaces and stay fairly cool.  If you’re warm in bed, you’re not going to get as much done as if you’re sitting in the kitchen chair feeling a cool breeze.
2.    Taste cold stuff.  If you need to stay up late, drink ice cold water.  Better than soda which will dehydrate you and give you (or is it just me?) a headache.
3.    Listen to Guy Kawasaki while you’re doing something else.  When I was listening to him, I was chatting with a new SM friend, creating a PowerPoint presentation, and preparing to write a grant.  All of this was influenced by what Guy was saying and provided me with real-time insight and inspiration.   Not to mention this is a great way to achieve a wonderful input-output dynamic: input is me learning from Guy as I listen to him, output is me writing my presentation or grant.  [Note: you don’t have to listen to Guy specifically, just listen to someone speak/a podcast/webinar/music]
4.    Smell… good?  Anyone got something for how smelling can make you more productive?  I got nada for this one.
5.    See that I’m seeing more and more of TweetDeck and GChat and less and less of PowerPoint and Word.  This points to the fact that I will be more productive in bed.