Beating Procrastination

Being Indistractible

A distractible person decides to be distracted.

4 Keystones for beating procrastination

• Master triggers - awareness and work on it
• Safeguard time - self, relationship, work
• Safeguard focus - cut back distractions
• Use pacts with yourself for preventing distractions

1 - Master triggers

Be Aware to Triggers

Distraction starts from within. So it is important to raise awareness to [[Trigger |Triggers]].

• What is something uncomfortable to escape from?
• What is an internal source to be aware of?

Negative feelings make us vulnerable to distraction.

When we notice that we get distracted:

• Start an inner dialog with yourself
• What are we being distracted from?
• Notice triggers:
  • What is it?
  • When did it occur?
  • How did you feel?
  • What did you think? What thoughts tiggered?

Respond

• Make tasks more fun.
  • e.g. convert to a challenge

2 - Safe guard time

• for yourself
  • Plan quality time for yourself including Sleep
  • How do you want to spend time to take care of yourself?
• your relationship
  • e.g. plan for dates, time to spend time together and for intimicy
• your work
  • e.g. plan focus time and cut back office distractions

3 - Safeguard focus

• make focus status visible
• avoid topics that diminish attention (e.g. EMail)
  • e.g. with folder system folder today, folder week
  • meetings
    • insist on agenda and an overview on what has been done already
  • work with read later apps
  • take care to work with a clean workspace, desktop, phone space

10 Minute rule

Look for Apps that help you staying indistractible:

• Self Control
• StudyBuddy
• Focus Made

4 - Create pacts

Picture a positive image of your future self.

Kids and distraction

Strengthen autonomy, competence and relatedness.

• give psychological nutrients
• provide unstructured playtime
• creative time together
• ask: How much time they think they should spent with devices? And have them monitoring themselfes.

Linking

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