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Focus on This

#153: 4 Tools to Defeat Distractions and Interruptions

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6627 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It seems like the moment you try to do important work is always precisely aligned with the moment that the whole world suddenly needs your attention. Learn how to defeat those distractions!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:13.2

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0:22.4

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0:44.2

All right, Courtney, here we are, full disclosure.

0:49.8

What is it that is typically a distraction for you while you're working?

0:58.8

Well, lately, you know, I've been at the office more and we're, you know, right here in downtown Franklin, which is south of Nashville and we have a lot of wonderful musicians in this town.

1:06.5

I would not say they're coming out to the street corner, but the folks that are, you know,

1:15.0

they're trying to improve, but they're driving me absolutely crazy. So that's been a recent

1:20.2

distraction for me. I would love for one of you two with some talent to get out here and play.

1:26.5

That would be nice. So that's a distraction

1:29.1

lately. I would also say probably like everybody else, you know, when you get that ding on your

1:36.3

phone, that text message, you're like, I'm just going to go look at this text message really

1:41.2

quick. You know, I'm going to get back to writing this big project plan.

1:45.3

But then you look at your phone and then you realize you had a text message from earlier.

1:49.2

And then you think about, I should probably order some eggs and milk for a pickup order on my way home, get that done really quick.

1:57.3

And like all of a sudden it's like a cascading, you know, series of events

2:02.9

that happens on your phone before you actually get back to your project plan.

2:08.1

I would say those are the big ones. Yeah. For me. Yeah, I'll say for me, definitely if I had my

2:14.4

phone too close to me and it's facing up, even though I've put on,

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