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Eliminate Your Options
As mentioned in the previous section, your internal distraction is usually overlooked. So how not to let yourself get distracted by too many options? Narrow down or eliminate your options. For example, if you’re in your room and have the option to turn on the TV, pick up your phone to play with or grab the bag of chips on your desk to start snacking, get rid of them. You can hide the remote control, turn your mobile off, and put the chips in the kitchen or anywhere that doesn’t take you 20 seconds to reach.
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Control Your Focus Environment
It’s human nature to be triggered by our five senses constantly. Here’s how our attention is affected by our five senses:
● Sound (e.g. chit chat, pets, white noise, music)
● Touch (e.g the comforts of your chair, your clothes, cleanliness of the table)
● Sight (e.g your screen,...
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Internal Distraction
Internal distraction is a distraction you have inside your brain. It refers to mental blocks that hold you back from staying focused. What are these blocks? Being able to choose. The most common distraction we encounter is that we have too many options in hand. Ever think of why it’s so easy to s...
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External Distraction
External distraction is a kind of distraction that is pushed to you externally. Examples include emails and messages notifications, and people coming to you when you’re in the middle of a task.
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Create Mental Stop Signs
In this highly connected world, lots of things can serve you 24/7 and give you endless information and resources. Take YouTube, for example, it is always recommending you the next video whenever you’ve finished one. If you don’t stop yourself before playing the next recommended video, you’ll be w...
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How to Tackle Distractions and Stay Focused
Step 1: Eliminate Your Options
Step 2: Create Mental Stop Signs
Sign 3: Control Your Focus Environment
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What is Distraction?
Distraction is the process of diverting the attention of an individual or group from a desired area of focus and thereby blocking or diminishing the reception of desired information. Distraction is caused by: the lack of ability to pay attention; lack of interest in the object of attention; or t...
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Communicate quickly. Never hold up communication with these two-minute responses:
- Respond to an email or text message.
- Respond to a work message.
- Provide a requested approval or sign-off.
Get rid of digital clutter
...Put Your Phone Away During Focus Hours
The smartphone is the biggest distraction for most knowledge workers. If you want to regain your focus and get more done, you need to put it away for at least 2–3 hours per day. Put it in your bag, hide it, or place it in a different room. Do whatever you can to protect yourself from this major s...
Keeping your home organized:
- If a job takes around 30 seconds or less to do, do it immediately: put away your shoes or sort your mail.
- Watch your ‘hot spots’. Clutter tends to accumulate in the same places: the front door, the kitchen table.
- When you take something out, you should simply...
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