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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

384 | Robin Sharma: “Get Away From Distraction.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Robin Sharma is back on the show to talk about how incredibly distracted we are in our lives and how important it is to get away from the world to up our creativity, focus, and brain power.

For more about Robin’s books, programs, and events, visit robinsharma.com. You can find today’s full talk here.



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0:00.0

Get away from distraction and that is the quote of the day

0:30.5

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host,

0:33.5

Malik Josephs of Malik Josephs.com filling in for Sean Croxton or Sean Croxton.com.

0:39.6

And we've got Robin Sharmer back on the show and Robin talks about a topic that

0:45.0

Mel Robin spoke about a few weeks ago, the topic of distractions and distractions is

0:50.3

something that we all encounter. Sometimes more often than we would like.

0:54.3

And I'm I'm pretty much no exception. I encounter some distractions we're looking

0:58.2

for clips for the show. Most of the clips that I find are on YouTube and I don't

1:02.4

know about you, but you can spiral down to YouTube rabbit hole pretty quickly.

1:07.6

You know, one minute, I'm watching an hour long speech.

1:10.0

I'm super engaged. And the next minute, I'm watching magic tricks.

1:13.8

And then I think to myself, how the heck did this happen?

1:17.4

So something that normally would take me a few hours now takes me even longer.

1:22.0

And I know I'm pretty much not alone here. I mean, for you, it could be YouTube,

1:25.5

it could be Netflix, Instagram or Facebook.

1:28.8

So I want to propose a quick challenge.

1:31.1

We all have one small thing that we've been putting on the back burner, something that

1:35.0

whenever it comes time to do it, you find yourself getting distracted.

1:39.4

So whatever that thing is that you have to get done, I want you to focus and get

1:45.0

that thing done today without any distractions. Here's Robin.

1:51.4

According to the latest research on an average day, we're spending 2.1 hours a day in

1:58.1

distraction. We are being interrupted by technology every 11 minutes.

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