10 Ways To Eliminate Distractions

Life in this day and age is full of distractions.

There’s the gazillion advertisements we are exposed to on a daily basis. There’s the thousands of new advanced gadgets and technology that we just itch to try out. There’s the hundreds of product launches every day. Then there’s the tons of business opportunities that screams for our attention.

Most people are what I like to call ” choice addicts”. They keep every advertising material because “one day they would need buy the product”. They buy and use cutting-edge gadgets for the sake of using it. They buy new products every time they come out and jump from one business opportunity to another simple because they “don’t want to miss out”.

Sounds familiar? Is that you I just described?

All of us are guilty of at least one of those sometime in our lifetime. In fact, we often give too much attention to distractions in our daily life. It might just be a few second glance but the price we pay is much more than just that.

Did you know it takes approximately 2 hours for you to recover your momentum after a distraction while you’re at work? That means it takes you about 2 hours to be as productive as you were before the distraction. That’s a lot of productivity if you ask me.

If you feel like you work a lot but never achieve anything much, this might be the problem.

So here’s the plan

Lock yourself up in a “war room” when you’re working. No phone, no emails, no instant messengers, no kids, no helping your spouse, no distractions whatsoever. If locking yourself up is not possible, then wear a headphone and pretend you’re busy so no one would come and disturb you. Put up a large “Do not disturb” sign if need be.
Clutter is one of the prevalent distractions in modern homes today because people are just too busy to tidy up nowadays. I don’t care about your personal hygiene but if you want to increase productivity, you’ll want to tidy up your war room.
Your war room should only be for war and therefore should be independent of your bedroom and should not contain things like stereo and TV.
Keep your war table extremely free of distractions, distractions like a photo, magazines or any other things that you don’t need when you’re working.
I know you have a lot that you want to do and opportunities seem to spring up everywhere you go. But fact is, you’ll never enjoy success if you split your focus. So prioritize on what you want to do and do that only.
List the rest of things that you want to do and cross them out once you’re done. Listing allows you to better focus your attention.
Then set up an email address for the sole purpose of getting advertising materials. Use this address if you’re signing up for any sort of “newsletter” and to get some free report.
Control yourself and limit your blog and forum visits to only 3 per day. It decreases the amount of product launches and “cutting-edge” technology you’ll be exposed to. Relax, you can find those products when you actually need them through a magical portal called Google!
Don’t do anything work-related if you’re outside of the war room… unless of course your work requires you to be outside a room.
Perhaps the biggest distractions anyone could ever face is the almighty internet. When it comes to this, you require sheer will power. I used to ask my life lock up the modem so that I can’t go online when I’m working and do not need to be online.