You cannot make more time, only work with what you have. One of the most required skills, but least well taught and practiced, is the best use of time. Prioritizing what needs to be done and when. I tell people “do one thing at a time” then ignore my own advice! It is so easy to get distracted.
But there is a problem which we need to deal with. Its called institutionalized bad habits. It begins when we are sat in a class room with 30 noisy peers and expected to concentrate on boring work while the other people sat at our desk want to talk about last nights TV program. We are not able nor trained to filter that and concentrate. Later as adults we realize all too late that we have a bad habit. We are pulled this way and that, reacting to new information and demands for our attention. There are some disciplines which require this ability. The military for instance. But they spend a lot of time and effort teaching their people how to absorb, analyze and then prioritize. It does not always work so they build systems to deal with it within the chain of command. This is not always possible in civilian organizations, especially small ones where individuals have a wide range of tasks to do.
Prior to the computer it was much easier, the pace of distraction was more limited. But now we have so many means of communication that we are constantly being tapped on the shoulder. Interestingly it is producers of some writting software who have identified this first. Some word processors now have a feature to hide the rest of your desktop. Other apps should follow suite. Working in a browser has become more and more common as more apps we use live in the cloud. Yet it can be our wost enemy as far as time management goes. Firefox created Prism which allows you to create a local instance of a web app. Its greatest feature is that it removes you from the browser and the distraction it affords.
People thought for a long time that gen Y was cool because they can multitask. Yes maybe they can or maybe they are just distracted. Multitasking is a myth. You only do something well when you are concentrating on it. Its called focus. Its essential to create true value and results. So decide when you are available to new information and when you need make time to focus. Turn off the incoming stream and put a sign on the door.
