Doing Other Things To Distract From What Actually To Do
Do you have that moment when you’re working and you are distracted a lot? Do you have these moments that we can’t focus at work or the projects we’re doing and realizing we are not doing what we should do?
I get you! I have the same a lot. Since my childhood, I am distracted a lot from what I need to do. I was chatter and I also think I didn’t like school that much. At the other side, I loved a lot of other things that I gave my attention to.
I have been through that a lot, I mean I distracted myself with everything with other things than I supposed to do. I couldn’t concentrate enough. That is what my character is. Also, I was thinking about other things, like what I wanted to, what I needed to do. At the other hand, playing the violin was what I loved to do the most. But sometimes it is difficult to concentrate, also when I was playing the violin as a child. Of course, as a child, you have to mean how to concentrate, but as an adult, you actually should know how you have to concentrate. At least what fits with your needs.
Especially with all the digital technologies, you will be distracted. To me, it is also a challenge to try concentrate. This is another distraction. When I try harder to focus, I actually realize I can do this.
I surprise myself that I’m able to have more possibilities to focus on a project.
What can you do not to distract yourself? This is a question I ask myself a lot. At the same time, this is what is different for everybody. We are different kind of people with different kind of needs. So, I find things that help me find my productive ways. And also what is it that helps me not to distract myself from everything that is distracting me? Here are a few things that help me.
All things away what distracts
Put all the things away all the things you don’t need at that right moment. When you are working you want to get the best out of your productivity without any distraction. What distracts you, is different from what distracts me. To me, that is my phone, and things I don’t need and is around me. When I work, I put my phone into the box on the other table (where all these stuff is), I only use the pens, pencils and other things I need on the table and everything else goes away I don’t see in my view.
Workspace
Create a quiet workspace somewhere you like to work and you will be productive all the time. I also, choose a location at home where you are able to be productive, somewhere quiet. To me, that is my room. But in this crisis — homeschooling my daughters — I work in the living room as I have also to take care of them. When nobody is around me, I love to work much better and being productive.
Let others know
Let your house- and roommates know that you have to be more productive and they can’t disturb you. This is important, so you won’t be disturbed during your productive moments. One way to do is texting them in the group app, or just by hanging a note on your room door.
Take breaks
Take a break every hour for at least ten minutes, if it helps you, use the Pomodoro technique. This helps me sometimes, but not always. It also depends on how much I have to do and what I am doing at that moment. It helps me taking breaks now and then. Also, it is important to take a half-hour break during your lunchtime. Don’t lunch when you’re working, that is not good for your brain.
Maybe there are other techniques that help you than I love to read it in the comments.
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Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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