{"id":1331,"date":"2024-02-12T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2024-02-13T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:14:15","slug":"dis-journey-from-distraction-to-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/dis-journey-from-distraction-to-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis’ journey from distraction to traction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The bank of time<\/em><\/span> has finite deposits. We live with the belief that there is always tomorrow. But very soon our tomorrows will run out. The power of now<\/em><\/span>( also a classic book<\/a> by the same name written by Eckhart Tolle<\/a>) is under utilised as we move sub consciously from one distraction to another leaving little scope for deep work<\/em><\/span> that matters.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the best way to move from distraction to traction is to make a To-Do-List<\/em><\/span><\/a> and alongwith that make make a To-Not-Do List<\/em><\/span><\/a> and time blocking which helps in distilling the important from the unimportant. Offers you the time to do deep work<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Time blocking is a preferred route adopted by people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk<\/em><\/span> etc to do intense work of the highest importance.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to change anything unless our motivation is strong enough. Before we can deal with our addictions to distraction, we need to uncover our motivations first.<\/p>\n

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If you’re living in your inbox or reacting to an ever-expanding to-do list, it is time to recalibrate our motivations. Because your real competition is your distraction.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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As James Clear<\/em><\/span><\/a> mentions so eloquently, “The more things you have, the more things you have to manage.<\/span> Simplicity isn’t merely cheaper, it’s easier<\/em>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The bank of time has finite deposits. We live with the belief that there is always tomorrow. But very soon our tomorrows will run out. The power of now( also a classic book by the same name written by Eckhart Tolle) is under utilised as we move sub consciously from one distraction to another … Continue reading “Dis’ journey from distraction to traction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}