How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
Posted by Jade Onashoga|Eliminate Distractions|Increase Productivity| Increase Focus|How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
Many a time, have I thought and pondered on how best to deal with distractions that prevent me from being productive. Especially the ones that prevent me from being focused, productive and ready to progress along my entrepreneurial journey.
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How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of my Distractions and Deal with Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips
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Solution to anxiety and feeling anxious at the onset of an activity, task or project
Anxiety is basically a debilitating state of mind. Anxiety reduces our ability to focus, carry on and complete an activity, task or project successfully as we should. The first thing you must consider is to calm yourself down. Both your physical being and more so your mind. You can achieve this by making conscious and purposeful effort to alleviate the anxiety you are feeling. You must be intentional in dealing with anxiety by taking a break, going for a walk to clear your head. Breathing exercises and meditation serve very well in calming anxiety.
For me laying on the floor (with a soft surface) on my back in a dimly lit room for about 15 mins releases my anxiety and enables me to refocus. You should try it and let me know how you get on.
Finally,brainstorming and putting a plan in place with regards to the task you have at hand is a very good starting point. This will not only reduce your anxiety but will give you some clarity as to how to tackle the task.
2. Solution to your mind drifting and Mindfulness
Be mindful of your thoughts and basically keep your thoughts under control whilst working on your tasks. Do not allow your mind to wander for too long as this will be counter productive to the tasks you are attempting to deliver. Consciously bring yourself back from those thoughts, get up, have a look out of the window, get a drink of water and then go back to tackle the task.
It is also very important to focus your efforts on one task at a time. Many entrepreneurs do claim that performing more tasks at once helps to get more done and saves time. When you are at a point of which you have mastered your mind wandering and can identify when you tend to drift off, then you can consider some limited multi tasking; say two tasks at a time.
3. Solution to I can’t do this/It’s impossible to execute this task
The best solution for I can’t do this, is to make a plan and do it. If you are feeling overwhelmed by a task at hand and have been putting it off for a while, try to conduct a bit of research on how best to go about it. Take out 20 mins to research and you will be surprised that what you find will be an enabler for you to make progress with the task.
If you find it challenging to conduct the research, ask a family member or a friend to assist you with it. There is a likelihood that your request will be met with enthusiasm. The enthusiasm will then rub off on you; another enabler to conquer the impossible. When they revert back to you with the research, you have a mini plan right there, all you need to do is to refine it. WELL DONE.
The impossible beliefs are all in your head so you must address this by saying to yourself, “I can do this”. The solution is embedded somewhere on the inside of you, you need to uncover it by saying, Actually, I can do this!!!
4. Solution to constantly moving the goal post (even when it is cast in stone)
Time to get disciplined and hold yourself accountable. Plan what you need to do on a daily basis. Map out your key deliverables with dates attached. Force yourself to do a bit more on a daily basis, I call it going the extra mile. This will save you surmountable amounts of time as you get the task done. Take it in piecemeal chunks, each day and a couple more chunks the next day and the next day.
This will result in you not having to shift the goalpost ever again. Plan and manage your time accordingly and it will serve you well in performing your tasks. You will not need to shift the goal post ever again.
5. Solution to thinking of what others are doing and their capabilities
Focus on yourself not others peoples success, you are capable of achieving your own success if you focus and go the extra mile
Believe in yourself and your own unique capabilities, insights and what you are passionate about
Be content in who you are as a person but work on yourself , develop yourself and work hard as you progress your entrepreneurial journey. you know that you have some key strengths of your own, see how you can further develop those to work to your advantage and also to empower other people, after all this is what success is all about.
Compete with yourself not others, by competing with yourself you are on the course of working your tasks and delivering your goals. You have the opportunity to learn from your your own experience as well. its a WIN WIN situation.
BONUS TIP
How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
Instead of constantly comparing yourself to other successful people, Learn from them, emulate some of what they do and celebrate their success. Be grateful for what you have, who you are as a person. You have a lot to offer with regards to what you are passionate about. It will certainly take you to the place of success. You will be empowered to help other people as you make progress.
In conclusion:
- Take time out to calm yourself down to alleviate anxiety – device a logical plan
- Control your thoughts bring your thoughts back to focus and execute one task at a time
- Break that task that you deem not possible into bite-size chunks, work with someone to device a plan and you will see that it is actually quite POSSIBLE
- Hold yourself accountable and do an bit extra each day not only will you complete that task in a timely manner but you will not be under any stress or anxiety
- Focus on yourself, draw out your own unique capabilities . Harness these to your advantage and to implement your entrepreneurial goals. You will stand out in your own capacity not someone elses.
How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
Posted by Jade Onashoga|Eliminate Distractions|Increase Productivity| Increase Focus|How To Identify The Actual Root Cause of your Distractions and Deal with your Distractions. 5 Helpful Tips (Part 2)
