3. Organise Your Environment
Organising your work space is a very effective way of keeping your focus.
Before you get down to your important activity, make sure that your work space is clean and any possible distractions are removed.
If music inspires you and helps you to concentrate, play some. Get rid of or move away from other noises that are not conducive. You may even want to use a headphone or earplugs.
A diffuser or some other way of tapping into your sense of smell may be useful. Essential oils are great and a good one for boosting memory and attentiveness is rosemary.
Make sure that you have eaten, preferably food that boosts your energy. Keep water close by and a few healthy, energising snacks.
If you have the benefit of a good window view, by all means make use if it. If not, perhaps a photograph, motivating poster or object may work for you.
A comfortable chair and uncluttered desk are also important.
The key thing is being at ease in, yet motivated by, your environment.
It is strange but just before I read your tutorial I stumbled over an article via the Pocket app, named "Indistracted", which goes hand in hand with what you write here and your related blog post about Focus the other day.
I have noticed lately that I have been suffering a bit form distraction myself, from stress due to heavy workloads at work, and trying to get some progress in my digital entrepreneurship.
The distraction takes me into a digital screen doing research and work related to my digital entrepreneurship, overlooking among other things, our dog. She has started to react to my distraction, and has showed it to me lately that she is not happy with my shift of focus.
This weekend, I will re-write my work schedule and DMO details to allow for more quality time with family and our little fur baby.
Your Call-to-Action in your tutorials are spot on.
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Balancing the scale is an ongoing activity.
Honestly, I do not think that it is ever really equally balanced.
Some days it is more of one thing and less of another.
That is why planning is important and prioritising critical.
Do not neglect your family and loved ones.
Your dog knows that he is getting less than he usually does.
My way of addressing that is involving my dog and my daughter in my breaks and doing something fun with them for 10-20 minutes then, back to work for a bit.
They really feel included then. 🙂
Instinctively, you will know.
Cassi
