DISTRACTION

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Distraction can ruin ones life and deprive you from achieving your targeted goals. If staying focus was as easy as the word, there would be more successful people. Social media is one of the biggest distraction people face, people spend hours in the timeline of celebrities they want to be like but they find it hard to work and stay focused in other to achieve their aim. Overcoming distraction is a daily struggle for many, they know that they are being distracted but still can't pull out of it. I will help you with some tips to fight social media distraction.

TURN OFF VISIBILITY

When people see that you are online, they see the need to chat with you even if there is nothing vital to discuss. turning off your visibility will reduce the attention you get and give you more time to stay focused.

TURN OFF NOTIFICATION

The beep from your phone is always an excuse to grab your phone,check the notification and digress to something else. Turn down the volume of your apps notification or disable it entirely.

LOG OUT FROM YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

You don't have to delete your social media apps cause you might need them while working. log out from them and you will be restrained from logging in unless there is something important to do. If you leave them logged in, you might keep opening it unconsciously and end up wasting your whole day roaming around people's timeline.

SELF DISCIPLINE

You can discipline yourself by imposing punishment anytime you give in to distraction. Be strict about it and do not compromise. You can reduce the amount of money you spend on data subscription, turn off data often and keep your phone charger away.

WORK WITH TIME

Having deadline and marking out time for things also helps you to stay focus and achieve your goals. You can pin your daily activities on the wall as a reminder, set alarm at intervals and put in great effort to meet up to your target.

MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT YOU NEED SOME TIME OFF

This works well for me, once I announce that I will be off for a while and need to get something done, I keep to it cause I shy away from being known as someone that doesn't keep to her word. The thought that everyone knows that you have something to do will keep you off and force you to focus on your work.

FORM AN ACHIEVERS TEAM

You can get in touch with people that are focused or intend to be, working as a team can make it easier, you give yourselves deadline and also show proof of work.

If your case is intense, you can downlaod applications that can help you stay focused. There are apps that can lock you out from social media apps for a certain period of time, tell you a break down of time spent in different apps and also give a review of your progress.

Goodluck and stay focused.