How Do You Over Come Distractions

Lock yourself in a closet with your laptop, put on some music and use headphones. And work in the discomfort of the puny room.

Your business will not crash and burn if you fail to write for a few days. No point in trying to do something when you know it will only increase your resentment toward the person.

Honestly, I feel a bit sorry for your visitor. Can't be comfortable to visit where someone clearly resents your visit. Might be better to put off working for a few days and try to get your mind into a "host" perspective.

Avoid topics you know you and your guest won't agree on and try to be a gracious host for a few days. If you spend the time resenting and sulking, you'll then spend the next week feeling a bit guilty for being rude.

If you try your best to be nice and still have a bad visit - get the person a hotel room on the next visit. It will be worth the cost.

kay

Wow, sorry to hear. I had one of my more productive days in a long time today. Too many distractions at "home" (long story that ends with me kicked out of the house and losing half my s*%t, but I digress..) I'm in a 1-bedroom now, feeling pretty low. I just picked up my laptop, headphones, iPhone, and left. Parked it at a local community college, used their wifi, cranked some tunes on the iPhone and GOT IT DONE. So basically, disappear for the day worked for me

Why don't you just kick them out of your house?

Take a one week break..wait till they are gone to start writing again

well first thing, take a deep breathe. i understand that this field of work can be highly stressful and any small distractions can get you off track. when i first got into internet marketing, my wife and i had to overcome working while a seven and two year old was running around. so i know what it is to wanna pull your hair out maybe it would be better if you can afford it or if your product is that successful to outsourse your content with a freelance writer from somewhere like guru.com or elance.com......and in the meantime.....get a plane ticket for the relative and yourself a stiff drink haha!

best of luck to ya and hope this helps or at least for a laugh!

wake up, glass of water, then spend 2 hours doing most important task of the day. dont check email etc. Work offline also helps. Go to a cafe with no internet, dump everythig you need in evernote and go to cafe to work and leave phone at home. set a schedule and give youself deadlines and lots of work to achieve.

Use the anger to fuel your business. Write articles on the best pranks to pull without getting caught. Turn those lemons into lemonade . and if you can get away with it... Field test your pranks, tape it, and now you've got an info product - hahaha.

Hi

I understand how you feel im sure we've all been there at some point.

What id do it. Smile internally and find other things to focus on.

Also go work in starbucks or your local favour place. Take the laptop. read something you like. listen to good music. Then write when you mind has wandered.

What i personnely do to get away from the negative issues is to free think at starbucks (damn i should trade mark that). I take my laptop, a blank pad of paper a pen and just get an americano cold soya and sit with the pad and pen until i come up with new ideas for articles the business etc.

I can leave until i have some great new ideas. Often after 30 mins i have a pad full of ideas a positive attitude no more thoughts of problems and am taping away on the laptop createing conetent :-)

regards

I'm that family member!

I'd say just be quiet or pretend to be sick if they ask. lol... You are sick, sick of them.

I don't allow people I don't like into my home - I can't understand why you would....

You just have to learn to tolerate such visitor. Some days are like that.

What if you are in the visitor's shoes?

I can only think of one reason the guest you hate is staying with you.

Your spouse/girlfriend/significant other, for whatever reason, likes/loves/is obligated to the guest.

You obviously made the decision either consciously (by saying OK) or unconsciously by saying nothing, to allow the guest into your home.

I'm sure your reason was a good one. Think of the reason why you let this happen. As I said, it must be a good one.

Let that reason get you through this week. Put the anger behind you and get on with it.

Good luck!

Make it clear that as much as you'd LOVE to spend every waking minute with them, you have quite a bit of unfinished business you must attend to. Politely excuse yourself and explain you'll get done faster if you just go in and get it done. Hint that you don't want to be bothered as much as possible.

I know all of the above sounds all good on paper, but its gonna be tough my friend. I wish you the best of luck. Be sure to tell us how it works out.

I have a local coffee shop that becomes my office when family members are visiting. Also, my wife is a school teacher, so in the summer, the house is full. That coffee shop becomes my savior.

I feel the same as Andy above. However, I notice he is also English (I'm just living in Ireland).

Maybe this is just a culture thing, but nobody enters my house without my permission.
Regardless of whether they are a relative or not, if I don't like them they don't get it.

I have a family member like this too.. They just show up when they feel like because they are "respected" in our community and don't realize they cause a huge inconvenience because their heads are too far up...

Anyway, I suggest you keep it cool.

If theres any chance of working whatever it is out, do it. I'm the type who can hold a grudge... But if you do have some soul left maybe you can forgive and forget.

I had a cousin who I was really close with. Unfortunately, I had a bad time period and said some sh*t that messed it all up.

I didn't like the fakeness and contradictory statements she always made and got annoyed with it.

I tried to apologize, but never heard from her again for 2 years. Still going strong and the resentment is still there.

Whatever floats your boat.

- Dean

Go out to work. Go work in a library or internet cafe and think of a good excuse about why you have to go there which would not upset your family members. For example, your home IP has been blocked by PayPal or something like that.

My daughter and grandson turned up two weeks ago - she had busted up with her partner and needed some time out. I had no idea she was coming and that she planned to stay a week. Now before you all go thinking I am a meanie not wanting my own daughter and grandson visit I should mention that my grandson is only two and he loves my computer. But anyway that is another story...I absolutely adore my daughter and my little grandson, I was just surprised to see them.

Suffice to say that once I had gotten over the pleasant shock that my daughter and grandson were staying for a week I did my work at night. I write - I don't need library style quiet, but I can't write when little Malacai is throwing his sandwich at me or my daugher has had another text that reduces her to tears - so I just stayed up late and put in my eight hours or so at night after they had gone to bed.

We all agreed by the end of the week that we were pleased she was going home but that the visit had been a success because I didn't try to work through the day in between cartoons, beach walks with "buggy" (my pet name for my grandson), being supportive of my daughter and everything else - I have tried working through the chaos before (It is my house I will do what I want style of thing) and all it did was cause resentment. We work on the computer; we are adults who can stay up late, so I made the compromise and the whole household was happy.

I guess you might not feel the same way if your visitor is resented before they arrive but sometimes to keep the peace it is easier for us to reschedule our days rather than make an unwanted visitor feel worse by being grumpy all over the place.

I hope you find the solution that works for you
Lisa