14 Ways To Beat Distraction🚫

You will not be able to fight distraction if your mobile screen is constantly pinging with what's happening, or your screen shows you how many messages you've missed!

Remove all of them. It should look like this, all the time.

One of the worst things we do to ourselves is to wake up just in time for our day.

We feel rushed.

It disorients us. For the entire day.

The first thing I do is sip water for 15 mins.

No phone. No book. No music. No person.

Just me, water, and my thoughts.

If our glucose levels go down, we feel drained out of energy.

If they remain too high, we tend to overeat.

We all have a zone where we are most productive.

Guard that period ferociously.

Schedule the toughest or most impactful things for that period.

For me, it is my mornings.

Reserved for the most important things with most of it thinking time

A powerful way to keep your mind focused.

A 30-min slot is 1 pomodoro

25 mins of work

5 mins of break

Repeat

After 4 pomodoros, take a long 20-30 min break.

Download a Pomodoro timer - there are plenty of good ones.

Your mind should be used to think.

Not to remember.

Use the calendar, emails, and notes app to record everything.

From to-do lists to reminders and beyond.

We are living in a world of information abundance. And the more sources you have of information, the more you will constantly be consuming, as against doing real work.

Even with 3 sources, you could spend your entire day consumed by them.

Schedule time for them.

We crave distraction because it is the forbidden fruit.

Dopamine is addictive.

You could fight it by setting up a scheduled time to "waste time"

Our mind then anticipates it, instead of craving it.

When we write we tell our brain that this is important.

Which is one of the best ways to get our mind off that thing.

So the next time you feel distracted, just write down that thought.

Our mind is designed to focus on things that we haven't finished, as against things that we have.

Do not add to your pile of unfinished things.

Nothing beats distraction than having a routine. The absence of which is you willingly giving away control of your day to external stimuli.