How to stop distractions and begin to live

The site publishes an article by Leo Babauta wonderful - a specialist in the development of healthy habits, the creator of the popular blog ZenHabits.Vchera I was not very focused day - I did my job, but also read books on topics that concern me now, play the game on the iPhone with the kids, I read a bunch of articles on the Internet and very few of the planned wrote.

The digital world and distracted me last week. I think all of us in it to some extent pursued.

Today I realized it closed all the tabs that are going to check out, something that is listed in the bookmark to read later, disabled off the phone, I shut the mail and took a break.

The following - a guide for my fellow internetozavisimyh. For those who have not less difficulties is the struggle with temptations and distractions.

time to realize h2> The habit of distractions - treacherous thing, because we often do not even realize that distractions. It creeps up on us like old age, and suddenly we are exposed to it, and powerless.

But we are not powerless. We have the power - our awareness and develop it is possible right now. Pay attention to the sites that you go to, how often do you look at your phone, how much time per day do you spend in front of TV.

When I wanted to understand their impulses to smoke, I carried a pencil and a scrap of paper, which put a mark whenever felt the urge to smoke. I forbade myself to smoke, but first had to be sure to make a mark.

So I pumped his muscles awareness, and it allowed me to insert some space between urge and my subsequent actions. This space has become a place of choice. From there, I borrowed his power.

see what happens h2> You can now explore the reasons. Once I have a few hours followed temptations online (read everything about bicycles and programming), I stopped and asked myself: « What's the general thing? » The thing is fear: fear that I I do not know what I'm doing, and I screwed up. Now I know that it does not matter, I screw up or not. My value as a person is not defined my success and failure. So I closed all the tabs and decided to focus on one program and only one bike trip. Learn'll go along.

I am often distracted fantasy - I really hope that I will become a great programmer and start to win in cycling. If think realistically, then this I will not have time. So it is necessary to part with imagination - unless you're going for a year or two to devote to them all their lives.

And of course, we are often distracted because they are afraid to miss something. We are not able to participate in all the coolest cases that deal with everything, but to let them neither do we. Therefore, we are always trying to uglyadet something online, something hot. And it does not matter. What is more important - to be harmonious, to do something that makes people's lives better, to sympathize, to help. It is better to focus on the most important thing that you can change the world.

Start act h2> So you achieve awareness and examined the reasons for his behavior. If not, take a walk a little (better on the street) and think about them. This article will wait.

And now the next steps. You can make one, it can be somewhat.

Close as many tabs in the browser. Something, store your bookmarks, something set aside to read later in Instapaper or Pocket, about the others forget. For a few hours, give up their favorite ways to escape. games, social networks, news. It's true, there is no need to look back so often. Write down the time when you will be checking e-mail and other communications. Well, for example, work with your mail for 20 minutes at 10 am, 13 hours and 16 hours. Record this schedule and stick to it. Get away from the computer. Walk. Cycling. Make a jog. Go with the children in the park. Meditate. Sit exactly a couple of minutes, without the distraction of everything, and pay attention to your breathing. Go back to the breath when distracted. Read. of paper books. Close all screens and give yourself read quietly and calmly. Find a place without vayf. Either turn off your router. Write without distraction. Close all applications, except for the text editor. Remove accounts in social networks. I recently returned on Facebook, to communicate with the family during the illness and death of my father. But the violation of privacy and all sorts of uselessness that fast there, sent me to flight, and again I deleted my account. Remove the unnecessary applications from your phone. games, social networks, all to What do you call when you want to escape. Eat without the device in their hands. Pay attention to the food, to the texture, flavor, color, on health that you fit into your body .

Understand what is important h2> What for you is really important? Social network? News? What are all the others? Games? We try to do everything, but then neither are focusing on what is not. None of our little fantasy come true, if we take in all at once.

What business do you want to implement right now? Can you focus on it at least a month? If not, it may be, it is not so important to you.

What kind of things are now most important to you? Select 3-4, or at least 5. How much of your time is devoted to them? Can you save your time on something else to focus on them? Can you pay 4 most important things your full attention?

In my life, the four most important things - my texts, my family, my health and my training. And no, I do not always give them your full attention. I often have to step back and remind ourselves of the importance.



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