When we drive our car, reverse all the time, keep our head-turning backside, and see no one is coming. It is how we deal with working from home. We are distracted all the time and keep our head backside to handle this distraction. We never knew that there would be a covid kind of situation. Now our life has been put at reverse gear mode mixed with all the distractions of entertainment, news, media screaming, kids hitting on your head, cleaning homes and neighbor dog barking all time, and then every other available distraction.
Often you try to ignore all the distractions, use meditation and timer apps, find a corner place at your home, but it does not work. Our lives have become chaotic now than ever, and those who call themselves organized are tested at their core. Is there a way to overcome distractions? Of course, yes. This article will cover how to handle the distraction daily, which we can name it as Gangs of Distraction.
Let’s go through these gangs of distraction in three parts.
1. How to plan your time daily
2. How to plan your time weekly
3. How to plan your time monthly
Let’s go through the first part of planning daily
As soon as we get up in the morning, we do meditation for just 5 mins. We need 300 seconds. In this meditation, we don’t do anything but decide and decide on just one thing. That is, “I choose to accept and ready to face all my distractions and uncertainty.” Once we choose this, then we go and block a distraction time. That is “how many hours that we think that we would be facing distractions.” If your living time per day is thirteen hours, then your distraction time is five hours, then you still have eight solid hours to do what you want to do. But if you choose your distraction time as eight hours, we also have five solid hours that you can use for your work or set out things you want today. But choose a distraction time daily as part of your morning routine. Now let’s move to the second part
Let’s plan for our time weekly.
When I was working for a company, for some reason, Fridays were a very hectic day for me. The reason was that most of the time, I tried to complete all my weekly reports on Friday and audit it. Friday work creates enough stress on your brain, and we end up not enjoying the weekend because of this stress. Hence what I would do is set a distraction day for a week. My Friday would be a distraction day. I would not have any plans and work today and keep this day as a buffer for the last-minute management requests. Slowly I had cultivated this work culture and started enjoying three days than just weekends. When you keep one day a week as a distraction day, you limit yourself for 4 four days. The more you are available, the more work you do. Limit yourself. When you set up deadlines for your own time, you end up achieving more and enjoy life. Let’s set one day as a distraction day on a weekday and aim for the last minute unfinished stuff. Now, Let’s move on to the third party.
But how about a monthly distraction plan
When we have goals for years, we can split these goals into four parts, which becomes four quarters. So when we handle three months per quarter, we need to allocate one full month for our distraction. Yes. It is a one-month distraction. When you plan for a one-month distraction for three months, you can prepare for your leaves and quarterly activities like meeting people, network engagements, finding a new passion, watching a Netflix series, and giving yourself more freedom this month. The only reason you can be competent is to provide yourself with more your time and attain an energy level you can perform at your peak. Please set out to take this one-month distraction break for three months, which reduces the burn our rate and brings excellent consistency in your performance.
Summary
When life is in chaos, we don’t know what we do. Often our life is at the circus because of endless distraction. Distraction is one disease where when you accept it; it becomes a cure of itself. It is just that acceptance of distraction is required with proper planning. Gangs of distraction can be attacked and handled when we have a daily, weekly, and monthly plan. When we do this distraction planning, all our gangs of distraction would be eliminated, giving a life. Now, we no need to move our life with a reverse gear and head-turning back, and we can move forward with our life as a roaring race car.