My son was about 4 years old when he asked me why I was screaming while watching the football game. He said they can’t even hear you. I thought to myself that it is true. I’ve spent hours and hours getting emotional over the years watching my favorite teams. There would be some satisfaction if my teams won. Yet my local teams, which I have spent my precious time watching, never win or haven’t won at all in thirty years.

I’m the type of person who buys my favorite team’s gear, as the local sports teams are very dear to me. When my team lost, it made me feel bad or even depressed. This has happened for many years. Unfortunately, all the local teams in my area can never advance to the championship game even though they put up big numbers and win a lot of games.

I have come up with some tips that can make you enjoy the game and do your job at the same time. These are my three recommendations to be more productive during the hours of your favorite team:

Work and watch the game. Work means work, so during commercials put the TV on silent and get some work done. If you don’t care too much about the opposing team’s offensive play, keep working and see when your team is offensive.

Watch the end of the game. You probably know what the last period/inning/quarter of the game is. Work until then. Then turn on the television. Now you can look around knowing you’ve completed the work you wanted to do on your To-Do List.

Reflexes. You can always work without watching the game and see the best moments after the game is over. Hopefully you’ve finished your work, which will make you feel good. If your team lost the game, you may not feel too bad because at least you got some work done.

You can take a look at the scores on Yahoo sports app or any other sports app. Be sure to keep espionage to a minimum. Or you will do nothing.

Achieving our goals is much more important than seeing someone else achieve theirs. You will never look back and wish you could spend more time watching more sports. Instead, you may have the opposite regret if you don’t reach your personal goals.