Who to stop getting distracted

This is a simple but painful fix that some of you will gladly abide by, and others will fight against. Which reaction you choose is up to you.

To stop being distracted, one needs to remove the distractions. Simple enough to say, hard to implement. Treat a distraction like eating unhealthy foods; if you have a bag of crisps (chips) in the house, and you are tired and hungry, those bags of crisps are an easy and satisfying choice. There is no obstacle in your way to consuming them.

But if you never had those chips in the house to begin with, then that desire to eat something quickly and unhealthy would have been harder to fulfil.

Ergo, remove the very things that distract you.

Avoidance through distractions

When it comes to distractions, the mind is a wonderful thing. It avoids pain very well. And if you have decided that your task is painful, then you will conjure up anything to avoid doing that very task.

Merely making up the emotional decision that the task is undesirable makes it harder to complete.

So ask yourself why you are doing it in the first place? What is the desired outcome that you want from completing the task? If it's doing the laundry for example, instead of focusing on the mundane task at hand, focus on the wonderful feeling of warm fresh clothes against your skin.

If you can change your perspective on the task and mold it into a desire, then that task becomes easier and less painful to complete.

Pleasure or Pain

One releases dopamine; the other lacks that very same chemical our brain is desiring. The trick to deceiving your brain is to turn that pain into pleasure.

The very thing you are trying to avoid or accomplish has the opportunity to give you either result. Everything comes down to perception and emotions. Do you choose pain or pleasure?

The choice is yours.