6 Ways To Stop Getting Distracted and Start Getting Focused

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business

4.7 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you looked at your phone today? How many times in a day do you scroll mindlessly on your favorite social media platform? How many times have you put down your phone to actually finish your work? Devices distract us from focusing on what needs to be done. Pair that up with a working space or an environment that doesn’t entice creativity and productivity, we often end up losing focus of our goals and wasting our time doing something utterly unproductive. In this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty talks about the different distractions that block our will to stay ahead with our goals while diverting our focus on unproductive things. Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram & tag us so we can thank you personally! Key Takeaways: 00:49 We all struggle from distractions that affect our focus 04:42 Principle #1: Decision fatigue 09:47 Principle #2: Starting out your workday by opening your email inbox 12:49 Principle #3: Creating the right audio for your working space 16:29 Principle #4: Keep books everywhere 20:11 Principle #5: Don’t start your day with your phone 23:36 Principle #6: Creating a visual environment Achieve success in every area of your life with Jay Shetty’s Genius Community. Join over 10,000 members taking their holistic well-being to the next level today, at https://shetty.cc/OnPurposeGenius

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0:00.0	Distractions will truly destroy your potential that will waste your time and they'll lead to feelings of guilt and stress and pressure.
0:09.8	But when you choose to genuinely and deeply really follow these principles and advice,
0:17.3	you start to see your productivity, effectiveness and most importantly, your energy will rise.
0:23.1	Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. I am so excited for these Friday solo episodes where I
0:35.6	get to guide you through what I've been thinking about for the week, what I've been struggling with,
0:39.5	what I've been working on, what I've been trying to develop. And I think for all of us,
0:45.5	what I'm about to talk about today has been huge. How many of you feel that you've become more
0:52.8	distracted? How many of you think you've become more lethargic? How many of you feel like you've become
1:00.4	slower because of the last 12 months? I'm serious. I know so many of you that are saying,
1:07.5	Jay, I'm just struggling with the distractions. And there's a great phrase that was coined by
1:15.6	Dr. Cornell West who called them the weapons of mass distraction. Right? There are these weapons
1:23.7	that distract us. They steal our focus. They destroy our drive and determination. And it's so
1:32.0	important that we're aware and vigilant of these tools. And for so many of us, I know it's
1:39.6	becoming harder and harder because we've been indoors for so long. Even if you're outdoors again,
1:43.7	now and things are opening up, you may find that your mind, you're feeling a bit of brain fog.
1:49.2	You're feeling lack of clarity. It takes you a bit longer to get there. How many of you feel
1:52.9	like you slowed down during the pandemic? I know that I felt that because I literally hadn't
1:58.9	watched TV shows for 10 years when the pandemic hit. And I'm not kidding you. I'd watched movies. I
2:05.2	love movies. As you know, I talk about movies a lot, but I hadn't really watched the TV show or
2:09.4	binge watch the TV show. And in the pandemic, I did that. And I realized I literally felt
2:14.7	slower because for the first time in a long time, I was actually consuming rather than creating.
2:20.8	I was taking information in or allowing my mind to just be in that autopilot state that we consume
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