‘I gave her a list of action items that I needed to accomplish, and made her promise to force me to stay on task.'
Sethi claims the unusual motivational system has helped him boost his productivity from just 35 percent to around 98 percent during the working day.
Writing on his blog, he said he felt embarrassed after calculating he wasted around 19 hours every week looking at Facebook or other social media websites.
Sethi wrote: ‘The Slap Challenge added a playful, silly element to working.
‘It gave me a non-conventional reminder of what I was supposed to be doing - and it ended up being something I didn't want to happen again.'
