Cutting Out The Distractions

A distraction is anything that prevents someone from giving their full attention to someone else. There are so many different distractions from watching T.V to playing video games. I have personally struggled with distractions on and off. My freshman year of college I struggled a lot with distractions because I would always watch Netflix or play video games. I would get assigned a big project to do and I would panic and not know where to start and then I would think I have so much time to get this done I will just finish it later. I would then start to watch Netflix or play video games because it was more fun than working on my project. I had more fun watching Netflix which only made my distractions worse. I would also watch Netflix before I went to bed which would keep me up at night and have me wake up at late and waste so much time. I was stuck in a vicious cycle and I kept going like this for days in a row. I finally got sick of wasting so much time and being distracted that I decided to change it. The first couple days were very hard. I kept wanting to just revert back to watching Netflix and playing video games, but I kept fighting that urge and eventually I developed a new habit. I deleted Netflix on my laptop and I had my parents take my video games back home so that I wouldn’t have the urge to play either of them. Distractions easily turn into a habit which isn’t the kind of habit that you want to have.

In order to break a distraction habit you have to first want to change. Next you have to make it very difficult for yourself to revert back to that habit. If it is a game on your phone delete the game. The last thing you should do is get an accountability partner to keep you on track. I used my parents as my accountability partner, but you can obviously use anybody you want as a partner.

Breaking a distraction is just like trying to develop a new habit, it is very difficult to start but with every day you avoid the distraction you are building the foundation to get rid of your distraction.

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