How to manage distraction

• External triggers: cellphones, work colleagues etc. They take us off track when we planned to focus.
• Internal triggers: they  come from within. They are uncomfortable emotional states you seek to escape.

• Most of us check email too often, almost like a compulsive disorder. Just like any habit, there are internal cues, triggers and impulses that make us behave in a certain way with no conscious thought.
• We are using technology as a suppressant to our inner re...

While to-do lists are supposed to keep us on task, they don't.

To-do lists lead to more distraction. A distraction is any action that draws us away from what we plan to do. Working on a task can be a distraction if it is not what you committed to do...