There is no distraction that we can't overcome through forethought.

I call myself a behavioral designer, meaning I help companies design behavior using consumer psychology to build healthy habits in people's lives.

When we know what to do, why don't we just do it?

We're lacking the ability to avoid distraction.

That the root cause of ability to avoid distraction.

That the root cause of why we become distracted

is because we feel these internal triggers

that we seek to escape.

When you're feeling lonely, check Facebook.

When you're uncertain, you Google.

When you're bored, check the news,

check sports scores, whatever.

If we don't deal with this fact

that we are trying to escape an uncomfortable

sensation when we become distracted. We're always going to be distracted by

one thing or another. We are slaves now to the urgent at the sacrifice of the important. If you don't plan your day

something or someone is going to plan it for you.

So many of us are reacting all day long. Where is the time for reflection,

time to think, time to focus? How do we plan our futures? We can't, we need that in our day.

So that has to be planned for as well.

A gift of our species that we can do better than any other animal on the face of the earth

is that we can see the future with greater fidelity.

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