Defeat Distractions

By Gordon Nsowine

Maintaining your focus on your goals in a noisy and distracted world can be tough. Many distractions seek our attention in every direction that it seems almost impossible to focus on the tasks that are truly important. From social media to text messages and calls and even people stopping by to talk, there is always something that can take our attention away from achieving our goals.

The result is that we feel like we are behind. When we spend most of our day checking notifications on WhatsApp or Facebook, we find that there is very little time left to get our goals achieved and profitable activities done.

The goal of this book is to learn how to focus on your goals and manage your time so well that you no longer have to waste time. You are the one in control of your time, not the clock. You can actually get things done based on a planned schedule.

As you read through this book, you will learn the importance of setting goals, minimizing distractions, and even taking breaks. When it comes to focusing on your goals, you can work with some of the best

time management techniques, including the Pomodoro Method and Eat the Frog to help you get more done.

Stop letting this noisy and distracting world get the best of you.

   What is focus?

Focus involves the ability to pay attention to things that will help and avoid distractions that will hurt.

Again, focus can be defined as the ability to pay attention or concentration on a particular thing. When a person is focused, their mind is centered on a focal point. Focus can also mean the absence of distractions. A focused mind is a stable mind. It has to do with the mental effort you direct towards a particular thing you are doing or work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gordon Nsowine
• Release date: Jul 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201569310

Gordon Nsowine

Gordon Nsowine is a young boy  who loves God with great passion. He had a very special encounter with the Lord during his days in High School. The Lord has used him in so many ways to touch lives around and to propagate the gospel. He has so much desire in teaching the Word of God. His  unquenchable thirst is teaching the undiluted Word of God (Full Gospel). He has written other books and received many invitation ministering in various places. He is also speaker in conferences, especially with the youth.  To him, he is everything humanity needs. His greatest desire is to see young people developed and becoming agents of transformation.  To him, the future of our world is in the hands of the young ones and as such, he wish to assist people to discover and fulfill their life assignment. In achieving the goal of assisting people fulfill their life assignment, Gordon Nsowine is so much interested in people making the most precious use of their gifts, talents and potentials. He believes education is never a barrier to the success of anyone, and as such people should be encouraged to pursue their dreams. He believes everyone living in this world has a particular task to accomplish as far as God is concerned and they are given life to live. He's also the president of Agape Foundation, a charitable which he just established and currently at it's growing and developing stage.

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Introduction

Maintaining your focus on your goals in a noisy and distracted world can be tough. Many distractions seek our attention in every direction that it seems almost impossible to focus on the tasks that are truly important. From social media to text messages and calls and even people stopping by to talk, there is always something that can take our attention away from achieving our goals.

The result is that we feel like we are behind. When we spend most of our day checking notifications on WhatsApp or Facebook, we find that there is very little time left to get our goals achieved and profitable activities done.

The goal of this book is to learn how to focus on your goals and manage your time so well that you no longer have to waste time. You are the one in control of your time, not the clock. You can actually get things done based on a planned schedule.

As you read through this book, you will learn the importance of setting goals, minimizing distractions, and even taking breaks. When it comes to focusing on your goals, you can work with some of the best

time management techniques, including the Pomodoro Method and Eat the Frog to help you get more done.

Stop letting this noisy and distracting world get the best of you.

What is focus?

Focus involves the ability to pay attention to things that will help and avoid distractions that will hurt.

Again, focus can be defined as the ability to pay attention or concentration on a particular thing. When a person is focused, their mind is centered on a focal point. Focus can also mean the absence of distractions. A focused mind is a stable mind. It has to do with the mental effort you direct towards a particular thing you are doing or work.

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Chapter 1: The Psychology of Staying Focused

When we think about how many things are vying for our attention right now, the list seems endless. From a long to-do list to our phones, emails, family members and more, it seems almost impossible to keep up. While modern technology is amazing and has helped improve our world so much, there is the side effect of always getting our attention.

Think about your phone. It is common to see one notification after another popping up and distracting us from the things that we need to get done. All of a sudden, we have wasted an hour and have a ton of work left to do. This continues to happen throughout the day and makes it impossible to get ahead.

You are not alone in this problem. The average office worker will find a distraction every three minutes. And Research from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University says that it can take almost 25 minutes to get back on task after a distraction. Basically, it is easy to lose focus and hard to get it back. We may not have a problem with too much work, but rather a problem with too many distractions.

How the Brain Chooses What to Focus On

During the day, your brain is always on and trying to gather and take in important information. This means that it has to sort through the noise and decide what it wants to focus on. This is called selective attention and there are two main forms that come with