Controlling your Distractions!

Date: 23rd December 2021

Hello everyone! How are you doing today? I hope you are having a fantastic week and staying hydrated. Two days remain until we reach Christmas and Eight till we enter 2022; The countdown is here.

Oikawa is here again with another article, and I am so excited because only two days remain until Christmas.

 During this season, many things are going on, and it has been so hard keeping up with interacting and writing on this platform.

Lately, I have tried my best to improve my drawings because I am trying to focus on art next year, and I also started a Forex trading exam, and the examinations span three months, and if I don't finish it, I may lose my money.

It is genuinely hard to manage all these things, and it has confused me on what to do because I don't want to stop writing daily on this platform, but I also want to focus on other things.

I wonder how everyone balances their outside life while writing here, and I have so much respect for anyone who can balance their regular day jobs with writing on this platform.

I wish I could have several clones who would help me do all these things, but in reality, I am only one person, and there is only so much I could do.

Anyway, enough of my rants, I don't want this article to be only about that; instead, let me go back to what this article is about, and that is "Distractions."

Distractions come in so many forms, and they are always so tempting because they are the things you want the most, especially when you want to take a break from everything.

Sometimes it can be hard to work, especially when there are so many fun things to do, and you always have this urge to enjoy yourself even when you know it would hurt you afterward. 

You could be working and see a notification on your phone, and immediately you abandon what you were doing and put all your focus on your phone; I am sure this scenario doesn't only happen to me.

Nowadays, the internet tempts us to stare at our phones all day without a care in the world, and I am sure many people have entered this cycle of looking at their mobile phones all day.

I may not want to admit this, but our phones can be our greatest enemy sometimes, especially when we let them take control over us.

You may find yourself spending so much time being unproductive and wasting your life away looking at other people's lives.

I would say Tiktok is one of the most addictive apps of this generation because so many young people have allowed it to take control of their lives, and they don't even have time to do anything else.

I have many friends who have entered the "Tiktok Life," and I see them spending all their time on the app trying to look for something that would distract them from doing work.

I am not against using Tiktok; I also use it when I am done with all my work, but lately, I can't use it anymore because I have seen how addictive it can be once you get used to it.

TikTok isn't the only distraction globally; there are so many forms of distractions, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, or even YouTube.

All these apps have a way of drawing us in and making sure we never leave them, and sometimes you can find yourself spending so many hours on them without even realizing it.

I have had my own experiences with all these apps, especially YouTube, in the past, I could stay on YouTube for two hours watching videos that didn't improve me in any way, but now I have learned to use YouTube to improve myself.

Distractions are not always bad because sometimes they can take our mind of all the stress we are having, especially when you are over-working yourself and don't seem to be having any form of fun in your life.

You must have a timetable to know what to do and when to do it; having a timetable helps you manage your time effectively, and you can even put in leisure hours to have time to do what you like.

It is good to distract yourself every once in a while, but it becomes a problem when you allow it to destroy your productivity and stop your growth.

Anything that stops your growth should never be allowed, and that is why it is always good to moderate anything that we are doing, even working.

Learn to control/moderate your distractions, focus on what is essential, and when you are done with what you are doing, you can start enjoying your distractions during your leisure time.

Before I end the article, let me ask you this "How do you deal with your distractions?

Thank you for reading!