10 ideas para evitar las distracciones

0:11 Hello everyone and welcome to ideas for a better life. I am Eugenio Palla, ruiz, reader, hard- working and lover of personal development. Today I want to share with you ten tricks to avoid falling into the typical distractions that separate you from a life with purpose. Before starting, as always, remind you that you have at your disposal a compilation of the most relevant ideas about personal development in my four books, also that if you want to train in personal development in depth, I tell you what has worked for me, which is the master of personal development online, of app, of institute of positive thinking. You know the best training in this field. And if you ' ve decided to start changing your life, but you' re not ready to do a master' s degree, I recommend you download for free the ebook twenty- five habits for economic abundance, a system with which you' re going to improve your relationship with money and thus have the lifestyle you want.

1:15 I leave you the link to my books, to the master' s clash of personal development and to free Libook in the episode notes, and now we' re going to talk about avoiding distractions. The ability to maintain concentration is key to professional success and personal success. If you' re distracted, you' re hardly going to be able to finish that book you want to write, you' re hardly going to be able to translate your business plan into a paper or an excel or you' re hardly going to be able to even taste the time you spend with your friends, with your family, with your loved ones. The ability to maintain attention has become the most important skill of the twenty- first century. Thus, of course, the ability to maintain attention is the most important skill in the twenty- first century.

2:15 But why do we get distracted by a regular suspect who always comes up with conversations is technology, but it' s not entirely true. Stopping using your mobile phone, your computer, your devices is not necessarily going to make you stop distracting humans. We get distracted in many ways. We can be distracted by doing rabble on a paper, we can be distracted by counting the books on a shelf. Anyway, our brains are masters in that art of inventing ways of distracting ourselves and distraction is the opposite of attraction. The attraction pushes us forward, we are either s or s NS. Press to pursue our goals and distraction does the opposite. It takes us away from those targets.

3:07 But distraction can start from the outside in, for example, when we get a notification on the mobile and in that case the technology does play an important role, but it can also start and usually starts from the inside out, for example, when we feel we are bored, when we feel that we are stressed, and then we seek to distract ourselves with anything. And obviously, nowadays, that anything we carry in our pocket and it' s called a mobile phone, but that' s precisely why, because the distraction starts many times inside out. We cannot blame technology alone for such distractions. Actually, if you think about it right, when we get distracted, what we ' re trying to do is try to escape. We' re trying to escape something comfortable. We' re trying to escape some kind of personal dissatisfaction and technology is just a very comfortable way to do it. But we insist on blaming him and don' t look at what the underlying problem is, what the real problem is, which is that personal dissatisfaction that leads us to reach out to our pocket and grab the mobile phone. The bad news here is that, evolutionaryly we are predisposed we are prepared to be dissatisfied. That

4:38 is precisely why our ancestors kept learning, continued to grow and ultimately survived. That' s why we' re here because of the dissatisfaction of our ancestors. That is why human beings are dissatisfied beings, because our ancestors did not conform to their fate, they were not conformists, they were dissatisfied by themselves and so they continued to progress. And today, thousands of years later, that heritage manifests itself in that tendency that we have to see things in a negative way. We quickly get bored of things, even if they go well, etc. And it is that dissatisfaction, precisely that is embedded in our genes that makes us vulnerable to distraction. Then there are ten things. Ten tricks we can do to avoid distracting ourselves. The first thing, as always, is to become aware the next time you feel like you want to be distracted, grab a pen, grab a paper and see scoring what you feel and what has triggered it. You have to be aware of what triggers your distractions are. If you start doing this, you' re going to learn to identify what those triggers are, and then you can start avoiding them.

6:00 You can start avoiding situations that lead to distraction. The second trick is to make your homework more fun. Many times, the only reason we resort to apps or games on our phones is very simple. These things are designed to be attractive have a system that is incredibly effective of rewards and challenges. So, what I propose is that you apply that idea of rewards and challenges to your day- to- day tasks, for example, your household chores that make them somewhat more interesting. I don' t know you can each apply it as you like, but, for example, why not do one, why not do the challenge of completing a domestic task in record time The third or third trick you can do is to control your thoughts. You know what you think of yourself has a huge impact on what you' re capable of accomplishing. If you tell yourself that you can' t resist distractions that you don' t have self- control, it' s very likely that this will become a self- fulfilling prophecy. When you hear that critical inner voice, try to talk to yourself the same way you would talk to a good friend, remind yourself that you have the power to overcome distractions that you are

7:30 not. So no one is in any way. We just do it in a certain way. Then make an identity pact. A pact of identity with yourself commit to living according to what you want, according to a positive picture of your future. I, if you define yourself as a person who doesn ' t get distracted, you' re much more likely not to get distracted. Third trick, you have to know why you don' t want to be distracted. The problem is that if you don' t know what you aspire to, it' s impossible to know what distractions prevent you from getting what you don' t know you want. And that' s why it ' s so important to have a plan. And the key to having an effective plan is to plan your time, manage your time, reserve specific gaps in your schedule every week to make the task determination. And this doesn' t always guarantee you' re going to meet your goals. There are things beyond your control. If one morning you plan to write and you have no inspiration, you will not write the words you had planned that day, but what does guarantee you. Having a temporary planning is a framework that makes success possible. It doesn' t mean you' re gonna make it, but it makes it possible otherwise. It' s impossible. In other words, if you don' t control your time. It' s quite possible you

9:03 don' t get what you' ve planned. The fifth trick is to always start planning from your personal life. You have to plan the first quality time for yourself. The reasoning is simple. If you don' t take care of everything else, from your job to your marriage, he' ll resent it. You have to start by saving yourself enough time to eat, to sleep, to exercise, to devote yourself to some hobby, and then, after planning your personal time, you plan the time for your important personal relationships. This is very important, because putting them in the foreground is what will allow those relationships to survive instead of, as most people do, giving those relationships just the time you have left and when you have done this.

10:01 When you have planned your personal priorities and relationships priorities, then you already plan the job. One of the most common symptoms of dysfunctionality at work is the way in which more and more companies are eating employees' free time. We are in the age of mobile phones, we are in the age of unlimited connectivity and more and more companies expect all their workers to be on call and to respond to emails, to answer job- related questions 24 hours a day. And if you resist doing it, then you feel like you can run out of work at any moment. But the real problem with this isn' t technology. Once again, we blame him for the technology. And it ' s not like that. Blame has it a culture in which time is mismanaged, in which workers are overburdened and in which, of course, that overload leads them to be distracted because they have to escape from that overload in some way. And I don' t understand you may not have the luxury of setting your own work schedule, but that doesn' t mean you can ' t control how you spend your time at work. So what I' m inviting you to do is to reserve at least two hours in the morning to focus on solo work, to make your big rock. Your most important task of the day at the professional level, the sixth Council, is to

11:39 know, manage your email. Today, the average clerk receives about fifty emails a day, and the problem is that that amount ends up creating addiction, because receiving email provides what is called variable reward, provides surprises. As you never know what is going to appear in your inbox, you feel somewhat motivated, forced to continue to review it, to give to the faith five continuously. So the idea is that you sort emails into two separate folders, that you place the emails that require an answer that day in a folder we' re going to call today, and the emails that only require an answer during the week go to a second folder. Then that day you take care of those that are in the folder today only and reserve a space in your week to take care of those that have gone to the weekly folder. The result of doing this, which is very simple, is that you will have fewer emails to put your attention to each day. The seventh Trick, the seventh Council, is that, apart from useless meetings, there are many meetings that lead nowhere. Then whenever you can escape, run away from them. In fact, meetings should only happen when the convener has a detailed agenda, an

13:13 agenda and, in addition, a brief summary of what is to be discussed. If we did all that, the cost of preparing a meeting would increase so much that the likelihood of unnecessary meetings being scheduled would be greatly reduced. If that' s not the case, consider whether you need to be at those meetings or not and if you don' t need it, escape as far as you can. The eighth tip is to avoid losing yourself on the Internet. So, if you see that there is news or there are articles that interest you, that you want to read them, but that would take you time to work on what you have to do at that time there is a choice. There is an app called pocket that saves those items on your phone and then you can use a voice function, so that you read them while you do something else, for example, while you walk out and that way kills your birds with one shot you, you keep in shape walking and avoid distracting yourself in times when you should not be distracted. The ninth point is to spend time ordering your phone and computer if they are full, like most phones and computers, if they are full of apps that you use very little or you don' t use. It' s time to clean up.

14:43 It gets rid of everything you don' t use regularly in the digital world works just like in the physical world. What you don' t normally use doesn' t have to be, you don' t have to accumulate it. And what you have left with is because you do use it. You have to pray in such a way that it is easy to access it. When you need it, put the time- consuming apps, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram as far away as possible. If you can be disconnected from the phone and keep it only, for example, on the computer, because just by doing that you will reduce the time you spend on them. And there is also another application that I recommend, which is self control. Selff Control is an application that blocks your access to websites that distract you. And the tenth and final advice is about children. What happens to children today, who are so long stuck to a screen instead of wanting to go outdoors with friends, etcetera. Why are they so dependent on stimuli and digital devices, Because experts tell us that is what they depend on is that it is to give excessive technological stimuli. It is a fairly reliable indicator of psychological malnutrition, because, like adults, children need three things to be satisfied in life.

16:12 They need autonomy, that is, the ability to make decisions without anyone coercing them. Second, they need to feel competent, the ability to learn and improve, and thirdly, they need to relate to others. To relate to others in a meaningful way. And, unfortunately, today there are many children who do not get any of those three things in their real life. At school. They are suffocated by rules at home, suffocated by their parents' expectations, and, worse, they spend less and less free time with their friends. So, if we add all this up, it' s no wonder that children turn to the online world. Why, because it is the only space they have to be able to wander freely and basically have autonomy, to have competition and to relate to others, because nowadays you already know that games are played online, not played individually. So, if you want your kids to put aside those digital distractions, you need to make sure you' re giving them the psychological nutrients they need to grow autonomy, competence, and good relationships with others. So you know, we often hold technology responsible for our current crisis of attention, but the problem is much more complex, it goes much further. If you really want to stop being distracted, you have

17:48 to write down your triggers, you have to make an identity pact with yourself, you have to control your thoughts, have clear goals, make your tasks a little more fun, start planning your days from your personal life and not from work. You also have to manage email in a correct way. You have to run away from the useless meetings. You can' t get lost on the Internet and you have to keep your phone tidy and do this if you have children, extend this to your children. You have to give them the psychological nutrients they need, autonomy, competence, and relationships. A life without distractions is certainly a better life. If you liked this episode, please give it to me. They share social networks or visit three WWS. Point ideas to live better. Dot com there you can subscribe and download for free a copy of my latest book, Seven steps for a life with purpose and if you want to learn much more, if you want to train a personal development with the best experts, take a look at the free class master of personal development online ipp or Download, the free ibu twenty- five habits for economic abundance. I leave you the link to both things and to my four books in the notes of the episode and just say goodbye. Thank you very

19:21 much, as always and until the next