Keep Up the Good Habits
You’ve prioritized. You’ve organized. You’ve identified daily practices to keep yourself working effectively. But you can still veer off course if you’re not careful.
To maintain your focus, you need to understand why you get distracted. Identifying what’s leading you astray will help you maintain better control of your attention.
Stop procrastinating
You might occasionally invite distractions because there’s a task you simply don’t want to tackle. But avoidance doesn’t get work done. It’s important to understand what is behind the impulse to procrastinate so that you can fend it off when it strikes.
The inclination to procrastinate can come from having too much on your plate (the more you have to do, the stronger the ...
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