Make a list of things that distract you. It could be your smartphone, or even something that’s actually beneficial, but eats up more time than you’d like. What could you do to better manage these distractions in your life?
OK- another one designed to stimulate your thoughts and actions towards making changes in your life. Hmmmmm. Well, teh internetz, duh. I’m distracted more by my open web pages than anything else in this life at this present time. You didn’t see that, but I just left this entry to scan facebook and look at a bunch of 1970s toys. It’s that bad. The Internet is the big one, but that’s not to say I don’t have a pile of other distractions a mile wide and high.
I think there’s a multitude of tools and techniques to help, but the thing I’ve found that helps best is just making the decision to change your behavior. Get out of the house, get moving, make plans and stick to them. In a big way, these help for those days that get completely eaten up by internet surfing. The one I haven’t solved yet is how to avoid distractions while doing just plain work, or trying to do something internet related without minor (and occasional major) interruptions. See, I just played a video game for 35 minutes.
Anyway, think I’ll look into some of the time-saving apps that block certain activities for a set time. Maybe try and distract myself with mumbly-peg or whittling if that fails.
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