What's your distraction of choice? What's your favorite diversion when it comes time to enter the creative realm? Do you find yourself suddenly captivated by the dust bunnies under your bed? Perhaps you decide this is a great time to clean out that junk drawer in the kitchen. Then again, maybe you do sit down with the best of intentions, but your working mind tells you to check your emails, and then down that rabbit hole you go.
We live in an electronic age, an era of unprecedented communication. The ability to type out a text, email, direct message and have it, within a nanosecond, sent and received. But for all the convenience and efficiency this modern age has given us, notifications---email, text messages, voices messages, social media updates---can derail us and sabotage our creative efforts.
We all have different work habits. For me, I must make my bed, feed the cat, clean the litter box, and empty the dishwasher before I can even think about doing anything creative. Left unattended, these household chores will rise up in my mind, they will intrude, interrupt and hinder my creative efforts. I know this fact about myself, so I wipe the slate clean ahead of time. If you know your tendency is to get wrapped up in endless scrolling on social media, call yourself out. Dedicate time before you engage in your creative pursuit. Set a timer. When those 10 minutes are up, set your phone aside, and turn your attention to your creative intentions.
What's your dream? Big or small, it takes consistent baby steps to see those dreams come to fruition. Refuse to be distracted, diverted, interrupted, disturbed, obstructed, and/or hindered.
Don't let little distractions derail big dreams.
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