noisy day

When your day is too busy, the first activities to cut are the ones you cannot do in an atmosphere of distration.

cue cue

The more things you commit to doing, the more likely it is that you will not remember one of those things when the perfect moment to do it arises.

smokescreen

There are people in your life whose main role is to distract you from other people in your life.

untangled

Distractions take up your time, so it is a sensible investment to spend a comparable amount of time removing distractions.

opening

There is a way to do each thing you are imagining, but you might not be able to see it until you get the plans, doubts, worries, theories, and compromises out of the way.

covered

Find a way to hide the possessions you keep that are not part of your current daily life.

noise

Everything on your schedule takes your attention away from everything else on your schedule and everything else you do.

the new blindfold

If you have a habit of buying things to distract yourself from your past, it reaches its logical conclusion when you start buying things to distract yourself from your clutter.

under your nose

A few subtle changes could produce the same result as the big changes you keep thinking about.

unboxed

Distractions start to disappear after you face the thing you are trying to distract yourself from.

on a bad day

When things are going wrong, take a few minutes to consider the bigger picture so that you can remember the other things you may need to do.

owned

You aren’t really competing against the other players. Your real adversaries are the people who own the game.

unseen

Don’t go looking for things you don’t want to see.

the unexplained

Sometimes there is no explanation for something that happened. It may not matter.

self time

Imagine that you knew that no one would be reaching out to you for the next hour. What could you do during that time to take better care of yourself?

unsolved

It is better not to look at some problems, even though you know you could probably solve them.

time sink

Time management is an illusion. The time saved by avoiding a large-scale distraction is real.

sources

“Be careful what you’re subscribing to.” — Meredith Miller

fork in another road

Sometimes people want to reopen your past decisions just to distract you from the new decisions you need to make.

single point

To simplify decisions, don’t worry about what others will think.