Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal

We have many distractions that prevent us from being productive and achieving our goals. Today, it is digital distractions that most often cause problems. However, they are only the root cause. The proximate cause may be other struggles in our life or bad habits that we have. We need to look at the underlying issues to help ourselves to not be distracted. Part of this is making sure we allocate appropriate time for things that matter. We need to spend appropriate time with people that are important to us. This may require scheduling priority and giving time.

We can more effectively use our digital time. We can remove apps we don't need from our phones. We can turn off notifications. Instead of responding to individual emails and notifications, we can allocate a certain time each day to process all our messages. (Sometimes this means that others will already find responses.) We can focus on activities. For kids, we can encourage them to set their own boundaries - and set a good example for them.