4 — Discourage distractions.
The last step for resisting distractions is to discourage them through other techniques. Here, you focus on building obstacles for some distractions to keep them distant.
A typical example is putting the phone in another room. The spatial barrier you build between yourself and your phone makes it easier for you to stop checking out notifications every few minutes.
But you can find many more enhancers and barriers for your activities. And you can use them to boost your tasks too.
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If you want to become a content creator in today’s industry, you need to take care of many things. But the worst thing is managing distractions. So how can you deal with distractions and stay online at the same time?
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