Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Today we're going to talk about opting out of distraction.

And instead we're going to learn the tools to opt into a focused living. It is so easy to get

distracted today. Literally as I go to record this podcast, I'm seeing a text come in on my phone

and I'm like, ooh, I want to answer that text message. Or I'm thinking about what show I want to watch later on or what do I want to make for dinner tonight.

You don't have to go far to find a distraction.

Today, though, we're going to focus in on three types of distractions, relationship distractions, family distractions, and

meaningless work.

But these particular types of distractions are really powerful.

And if we do not pay attention and minimize them, they can pull us so far off of our goals

that we will end up living a life we do not recognize and resent.

Instead, we're going to talk about three different ways to become more focused and intentional

and to cultivate a life of focused living.

How to evaluate if you become distracted and then what to do about it.

And as always, we close out with the practice of what you can start right now doing

to kind of help yourself opt out of struggling with distractions.

The first category we're going to talk about is relationship distractions.

I was having this really great conversation with my friend and basically I said to her,

you know, I realized men have been a consistent distraction in my life up until the last few years.

Having conversations about men, complaining about men, struggling about men, wondering why I'm single, wondering why this person isn't a good

partner, really can be a time-consuming activity. She also told me, yeah, me and my friends,

my girlfriends, we get together and we take turns talking about the men in our lives,

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