Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

In the beginning of the week, spend a reasonable amount of time to remove any potential distractions in your room\computer. After that, make things that truly rest you easily accessible so that when ever you’re procrastinating you’ll read books or play the guitar instead of scrolling ;)

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“I’m a master procrastinator. I’m so good at it that I’ll procrastinate by reading articles about how to not procrastinate.

Usually, these articles are filled with common-sense items like keeping a planner and setting regular work hours, which have never worked for me.

But once, in a particularly bad fit of procrastination, I came across something called the “distractions list” method.

I thought it was ingenious and immediately began using it — and it has almost doubled my productivity.

A distractions list is essentially another kind of to-do list, but one that keeps you focused on what you’re already doing.

With this method, you make a list of all the things that distract you as you’re working on a project.

Write them down at the moment they enter your mind.

That will get the nagging idea out of your head and onto a piece of paper so it won’t get in the way of finishing your work.

When you take a break, you can review the distractions list to see if there’s anything you need to do right away or if you can just remove it from the list after all.

[…]

My distractions list is the only thing that’s ever actually helped with my procrastination habit.

It keeps me on track because I’m getting the thought out of my brain, and it also helps me feel calmer and more organized because I’m not thinking about a million things all at once.

Instead, I’m tracking them and allowing myself to get back to the task at hand. It’s a kind of meditation.

With meditation, you embrace drifting thoughts and then refocus on your breath.

With the distractions list, you write down drifting thoughts and then refocus on your work.”

Source: https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/distractions-list-method-37389160

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

• Would you like to give a try to the distractions list? Why or why not

Critical-thinking questions:

• In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the distractions list?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

In a dream world without distractions, how will your life look like?

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