Distractions

Even a 2.8 second distraction can be devastating. Studies have found that while your working on a task the briefest of distractions can make it harder to regain focus, even greatly increase the number of mistakes that we make. I find myself prone to finding distractions. Every time I sit down and start working on a project no matter what the topic is.

I am finding that every little noise, can be extremely disruptive to my concentration. The more I want to work on a project from start to finish the harder it is. Someone talking in the background, a song on the radio, another webpage that just loaded.

Today as I sat down to work on a post for the 30 day challenge I realized it was the wrong timing. I sat down and was looking at my list of ideas as my wife decided it was time to start cooking diner, that also meant she would be needing my help. It seems to me that my timing is off, yesterday was no better. So instead I decided I needed to see what I could do to help improve the time I can spend focusing on creating a post.

First thing I decided I needed to look for ideas or way that I could implement in order to be able to concentrate and complete the posts I set out to work on. Here are some of the things I found that have helped others, I plan to use these ideas going forward.

Things to Help Stop Distractions

1. Set aside time where you can be free of distractions. Remember hide the phone, set it on silent or even turn it off for a short period of time. Do the same with the other things that can be distracting, such as social media alerts, news alerts, emails and depending on what

1. Turn of the unneeded noises. This is one problem I have I keep the TV on and I seem to get distracted by things that are on. I find that at times even someone simply talking to themselves inside the same room I'm in causes me to be easily distracted. This really might help, just simply turning off the TV, I leave it on hoping it helps drown out the outside noises.

2. Pick an amount of time to set aside that can be used to write, pick a small amount of time such as 30 minutes. While focused in the distraction free time spend your time writing and take a beak when done.

3. Find the tasks that are most important to get done for the day and get to them first. Make a plan of how to accomplish them. Even if you can only focus on completing one single task at first.

Slower is much better than giving up early because you took on too much, too early.

Keep in mind some goals will take time to finish, that being said look for smaller steps. For example the 30 day writing challenge is to simply write a post everyday, there is no length, word count or content type required this is a small goal. As I push past the 30 days making a post each new day my goal may change and if it does it most likely will increase maybe from here I will make a goal of 2 posts per day, or a minimum word length per post.

Conclusion

I am going to set some time aside to work on writing everyday. I may start off with something simple and short such as 20 minutes and during that time I will do my part of turning off the TV, setting aside my cell phone etc. Right now my goal is simple, write one simple post a day for the remainder of this challenge.

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