Distractions are always around you. If you're focused on your work and suddenly your phone buzzes, you feel like checking it immediately or your mind starts to day-dream after a certain period of focus. Has this ever happened to you? If yes, don't worry! I'm gonna share a few ideas on how to work consistently by not getting distracted.

Distractions In Daily Life

Getting distracted is mainly because we tend to lose focus after a certain period of working. Changing your attitude towards your work will help you know the importance of your work and not get distracted.It's very simple to do. Jot down the reason of why you want to work and keep reminding yourself about that reason. Build a positive attitude when working and treat your work with utmost respect.

 1. Attitude Towards Work 

Setting short work related goals can remove temporary distractions and help you see the long term goal ahead. You must set the short-term goal in such a way that it highlights the long-term goal. Ideally, these goals should be achievable in a short period of time like a week or a month. Everytime a short-term goal is achieved, observe your progress and note it down. Example: Short term goal: to improve test grades by 10% Long term goal: to increase my overall GPA.

2. Setting Short Term Work Goals

While working, removing all distractions is an obviously important thing. Switch off your phone or keep it on silent and remove any other distractions. Inform your parents or siblings before you work or they are gonna barge in and disturb you completely. Also, remove all those items or posters in your workspace that may cause you to get distracted.

3. Focusing On Work

The pomodoro technique is a simple tool to increase efficiency and quality of work. It can be applied to anything, be it exercising or studying or reading. For those of you who don't know about it, it's nothing but focusing on the particular task for 25 minutes and then taking a 5 minute break.This completes one pomodoro. However, if you feel you are able to focus for more time, you can increase the period of focus. Pomodoro technique helps focus easily as short breaks are taken every five minutes. Make sure to take 15 min break after 2-3 pomodoros.

4. Using The Pomodoro Technique

If you feel drowsy during work, have a small snack. Don't eat any high calorie foods like doritos or Pringles as these will only worsen your drowsiness. Eat salads and fruits. A cup of coffee is also helpful.

5. Snack Up!

Work with a group of people frequently who share the same goals as you. They may be your schoolmates or colleagues or friends. Working in a group tends to make every individual more productive and also competitive. This is a big time mood booster and gives one hell of a rush.Also, distractions are minimum when working in a group unless everybody tends to get distracted very easily. Choose your group of people carefully as there may be some that tend to get more distracted when in a group. Also, for further information, please do read the book mentioned.

6. Last But Not The Least

Getting distracted is easy, but staying focused is tough. Here are some ideas on how to prevent distractions!

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. 'Cal Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors' New York Times 'Deep work' is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Coined by author and professor Cal Newport on his popular blog Study Hacks, deep work will make you better at what you do, let you achieve more in less time and provide the sense of true fulfilment that comes from the mastery of a skill. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive economy. And yet most people, whether knowledge workers in noisy open-plan offices or creatives struggling to sharpen their vision, have lost the ability to go deep - spending their days instead in a frantic blur of email and social media, not even realising there's a better way. A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, DEEP WORK takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories -- from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air -- and surprising suggestions, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Put simply: developing and cultivating a deep work practice is one of the best decisions you can make in an increasingly distracted world and this book will point the way.

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Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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Deep Work

Flow states are deep states of focus achieved when the attention of a person is directed towards a certain activity completely. This is a state of mind that takes the capabilities of that person to a whole new level. This state is mostly said to be achieved by athletes and can also be achieved by anyone(if you focus hard enough). According to my experience, meditation (focusing on the breath) may improve the chances of entering into a flow state during an activity. For further information please do visit the link mentioned.

Flow, Focus And Happiness

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