The document discusses how to find focus and tackle distractions. It identifies internal and external distractions and provides steps to eliminate distractions including eliminating options, setting mental stop signs with time limits, and taking control of time. Tips to remain focused include minimizing multitasking, making to-do lists, working offline, taking breaks, and finding a quiet place to work. An exercise is described to concentrate by visualizing blood flow through relaxation of muscles and focus on heartbeat.

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What are distractions?
How do we tackle them?

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Types of distraction
Internal: e.g. Thoughts, Mental blocks, Fatigue, Worrying,
Daydreaming.
External: e.g. Text messages, Emails, Phone calls, Visual
triggers, Noise.
Step 1: How to Tackle distractions and Stay focused
• Eliminate your options
• Narrow down the distractions on a piece of paper
and eliminate them.
Use this table for help:
# Option How to Eliminate It
Mobile phone to play with Turn it off

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Step 2: In order to regain your focus, create Mental Stop
Signs
Set a time limit for whatever you do.
Set a limit on the progress for whatever you do.
# Distractions Stop Sign
Watching your favourite series on Prime Stop after one episode

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Step 3: Take control of your time
• It’s time to figure out where your distractions
originate, and put a stop to them.
• No matter what your distractions are, you are in
control of your time and what you do with it and
where you spend it.
Step 3: Take control of your time
• It’s time to figure out where your distractions
originate, and put a stop to them.
• No matter what your distractions are, you are in
control of your time and what you do with it and
where you spend it.

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Tips to remain Focused
• Minimize Multitasking – Increase efficiency by minimizing
multitasking
• Make a To-do list – Prioritize your work and plan your day
• Work offline – Avoid checking Facebook, Instagram,
whatsapp every 5 minutes.
• Take breaks – Relax your eyes by staring at a distant
object, get up, stretch.
• Find a Quiet place to work – De-stress by finding a quiet
place to work

7. This exercise enables you to concentrate from within. Start off
by lying down and thoroughly relaxing your muscles. Now
concentrate on your heartbeat without paying attention to
anything else. Think about your heart and how it is pumping
blood to every part of the body. While doing so, try to
visualize the blood leaving your heart and flowing in one
stream right down to the toes. Think of another picture with
blood flowing down the arms to the tips of the fingers. After
doing this exercise, you can actually feel the blood passing
through your system.
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