Are you easily distracted too?

I used to have this problem a while back. I got tired of wasting hours on the net with nothing to show for it.

Until you yourself understand that time is money, and because of that you shouldn't be wasting time, then you will keep doing the same thing over and over again.

A few things that will help:

- Have a clean work area. Look around you, throw out everything that can be a distraction to you or put it elsewhere.
- Organize all your files, clean your room. This should give you some sort of self accomplishment.
- Make it so that you have a room for yourself dedicated to online business ventures.

- After that's done, dig into your computer. Clean all the junk laying around.

Make two points.

First: Throw away everything that you haven't touched for 1 year. Put in your mind that if you haven't used it until now, you never will. Stop saying "maybe"... Just dump them into the recycle bin.

Second: Organize all your folders. If you have ventures that are running, ventures that you look forward to running, put them all in individual folders. Label them. And place them on your desktop. And organize all the guides you have bought, put them into folders. "informative guides" "money making guides", etc.....

After you have organized everything. Sit down, and brainstorm. Jot down your ideas, your goals for ventures you want to run in the future.

Get into the habit of placing small goals in front of yourself. There is a difference if you say, "I'm going to create a website header design today" and if you say "I'm going to setup a website and start marketing it and bring in $100/day" ---

Placing smaller, more achievable goals in front of yourself, will help you focus and get things done faster.

Make a to-do-list if needed.

And if you need. Go an download a "TIME IS MONEY" background pic for your desktop background. You will see it every time your on your desktop or laptop :-)

Hope this info helps.

Thanks!
Will do just that. Just looking around me - I have to start with the desk.
Regards

All good points.

I often found myself getting distracted by others. My GF is notorious for asking me to do things even when she sees me trying to get stuff done. It took some time, but I just had to put my foot down and say "no" and that I was working.

If that doesn't work, I schedule my working activities for when she is not here. This way I can have peace and quiet to get work done.

At one time I was about to rent an office simply to avoid all of the interruptions.

Unfortunately I also find it difficult at times to focus. Email is a big distractor as I am always getting some new "can't miss" offer that promises to "reveal all the secrets" to making money online. Add to that the mailing lists and private emails that I receive daily and I can find myself running off on tangents that can deplete hours of my day. Even knowing the acronym for focus has not seemed to help much: Follow One Course Until Successful. Maybe the secret is in finding the right one course to follow.

It's nice to see I'm not the only one who is easily distracted, sometimes I get so frustrated with myself for wasting hours upon hours clicking those links only to end up with information overload.

It's all about focus in order to get results, but the most difficult thing is not actually getting the work done but defining which work you actually need to do to ensure you are working towards your goals. When you find yourself getting distracted perhaps trigger your mind to ask the question, is this taking me closer to OR further from my goal?

Yes, I am easily distracted my some of my favorite sites, I tend to open them firstn as soon as I am on hold with my computer. I am not aware that I am wasting at least 1 to 2 hours of my time, but i am really trying to be more focus with my work and my time to finish my assignments on time.

Write out a checklist of the things you need to do and paste it near your computer screen. It should jot you back to what you need to do.


My 2 cents,
Dominic

Hey, I just remembered I've actually written a blog post about this where I've listed down 5 practical actions steps:

1. Get Post-It! notes or 3 x 5 index cards
2. List down all your objectives to be met or all your tasks to be completed
3. Set a time-frame for each of the tasks to be completed
4. Keep the notes or card in your view ALWAYS
5. Constantly check back at the note/card and make sure that you are doing activities that are truly necessary for you to complete the tasks

Hey Johan

It seems you are getting frustrated when you pursue many offers but find that you have wasted time and scattered your energy. Also, it sounds like you want to change how you approach this and that your current work is not satisfying for you.

You obviously have enthusiasm for making money and that you want to do this in a way that is productive and focused.

As for your enquiry as to how others deal with this, I would like to suggest that others' methods may not be right for you.

Here are some points to consider:
What is it you really want?
Are you clear about this?
Have you written these goals down?
What kind of work opportunities will help you achieve these?
Ideally, how do you want to be working?
What field do you want to be working in?
If your ideal opportunity came along, what would it be?

By going back to basics and focusing on what you really want, you will find you are more focused on what opportunities to look out for. You will choose opportunities that are aligned to your goals. Therefore your time will be better used and you will get less distracted and feel less frustrated.

With care

Being easily distracted are traits of the monkeymind. Meditation helps alot with that.

I think I have short-timers at 40 years of age. ;-) I get distracte way too much.

In Fact if they have a pill for this please let me know.... I just might start on it! ;-)

I know this sounds "dorky," but I put a timer next to my computer. Started out at 60 minutes, if I found myself surfing or looking at spam mails- I would look over at the timer and see how much I've wasted...

I get distracted with all of those e-mail offers too. What I do is just unsubscribe from them if I don't really need it.

I can say that I am not distracted with lots of e-mail offering me to join their sites. I just directly delete it and go directly on my own site or which I mean the site I love and known. By means of focusing your mind in one site you will never be distracted. So, I say be focused on one thing.

Here is my opinion: Getting work done is all about being in the right state of mind. It doesn't matter if you have a clean desk, or a quiet space, etc ... UNLESS you are actually in the right frame of mind to do work.

How I created this frame of mind: I used self hypnosis and NLP to anchor the right state of mind to a certain key phrase. When I say the phrase it fires off the anchor and I'm in state to do whatever I need in a brilliant way.

The CDs where I learned this are online now. See my WSO. I run the website selling them.

You just need to find a way to tune everything but your work out... The strategy is different for everyone.

I personally find that I am LESS likely to get distracted if I have my headphones on listening to music or the TV tuned to a movie I've seen a billion times. I just NEED the background noise... it keeps me centered and focused.

Yes, sometimes it is hard as you want to learn and absorb as much as you can. The best is to follow some program and learn the basic. After that you will be able to tell the different between a good system and a bad one.

Cheers ... Pwety

How I deal with it is easy.. Opt out from those emails that are just junk sale letters rather than good advice. I was like you at one point, but I just opted out, & I'm happier with the less time on email & flashy objects.

I am, and that makes me mad sometimes