Lesson 3 – What’s Distracting You Right Now?
Don’t you love Simpleology’s examples? I think that this third Lesson’s was by far the funniest. It is probably also the most apropos.
The image of the dorky computer nerd asking his sexy co-worker to review his product report all-the-while staring at her chest had me cracking up. I was a little bit shocked to see such brutal honesty on the video, but it is so true.
How many times do such ridiculous distractions keep us from meeting our goals? How many times do we make our choices based on food, or women (or men if that’s your preference) or even based on what TV show is on that night. Whims are the worst types of distractions, those are the types that we tell ourselves are acceptable, but often, they are the types that lead us the furthest away from our goal.
Making the right decisions is key towards achieving our goals, but even deciding which decisions to make is vital to success. Do you really want the fate of your business to be decided based on whether there’s a new episode of The OC on? Or how would you feel if you fired an employee when you were in a bad mood because you hadn’t eaten yet that day.
When we make decisions based on things other than our long term goals, we let these disturbances turn into diversions that suddenly become interruptions and before we know it, our lives are completely disrupted. The key here is to not lose your focus.
Focusing your attention means giving your goal your full attention and not letting yourself get manipulated by distractions. Sounds simple huh? What do you think?
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
I know exactly what you mean!
When I was pregnant with my third child, I got really snappy with people. It got so bad that people were avoiding working with me.
It created a really stifling work environment and prevented the natural flow of creativity. I was one bad apple working in a huge office and brought the whole place down.
Don’t let distractions effect your performance. This is a very important lesson to learn!
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
Keren, I think I worked in your office!
No, I didn’t, but at my office, a similar thing happened. The company decided to stop giving us free treats in the break room.
Almost instantly, productivity dropped off the charts. I know that this is what should happen, but it really shouldn’t. We were letting our lack of food effect our job. We shouldn’t let those things bother us.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Every person suffer much of the distraction in life…You are right even your family living within the perimeter makes you unhealthy/unproductability on your future. What is the properly way to battle this struggles in life?
This maybe the answer is to apply this lesson…. to our daily life. Thank you.