It is a perfectly quiet morning. The birds are quietly singing outside your window...creating a completely serene work environment. You sit down at your desk with your cup of perfectly brewed coffee and leisurely sip away as you immediately get focused on all of the tasks at hand. Ideas are flowing and, within no time all of the things that you needed to accomplish are complete. Bills are paid, emails sent, weekly meals are planned, job responsibilities are fulfilled, and all is well with the world. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you are awakened from this perfect dream.

Is this only a scenario that can take place in our dreams? Is it only in a dream world that we can sit down to get work done...and can work start to finish without having our attention pulled away by the things going on around us... and the distractions that we allow?

No...this CAN actually be your reality if you stick to your guns and follow a less distracted path.

Lose the Phone

Unless you need your cell phone to make calls for work, you are better off completely putting your phone away while trying to get work done. Cell phones have become so much more than just a way to make and receive calls.

With the fact that they are basically tiny, little computers come the multitudes of distractions associated with them. They alert us when we get an email or a text message. They allow us to view social media anytime and anywhere. They allow us to play games whenever we feel the urge.

All of these things are positives...unless you are supposed to be getting work done instead. If you truly don't need your phone and you have a lot to get done, put it away, out of arm's reach, until you complete your tasks. All of the fun stuff can wait until then.

Map Out Your Day

If you approach your day in a random, chaotic, 'I have no idea what I'm doing today' sort of fashion, you're going to end up exhausted at the end of the day and bewildered as to why nothing got done.

I find a great way to stay on task is to have a plan in place before even sitting down and getting started. Keep an organized calendar. Mine is on my cell phone. Whenever an event, appointment, etc. comes up, into the cell phone it goes. I set a reminder for the day before, and the day of, so I always know exactly what's coming up.

In addition, I make a list of the things I need to accomplish TODAY, in order from most important to least important, and cross each off as its completed. Having a visual of what I have to do, what I've done, and what's coming up helps me tackle the day in an organized fashion. This, in turn, motivates me to keep going and helps me to stay focused on that which I still need to complete.

Don't Overload Your Schedule

Sometimes staying on task is as easy as DOING LESS...scaling back on what you are expecting to get done. Sometimes, life can get overwhelming when we look at ALL the things we need to accomplish. Too extensive of a list can look insurmountable when you view it in its entirety.

If you were to make a list of all of the components that go into building a house, the job would inevitably seem too big to ever complete. But if you took the same list and broke it into manageable sections, it no longer appears impossible to do.

The same can be done with your daily TO DOs. Breaking your 'EVERYTHING TO DO List' into smaller sections will make it seem less overwhelming. It, in turn, becomes a better tool for you to stay focused. Having a manageable list to work on will allow you to complete the tasks and help keep you from getting distracted by other things.

This is why I always suggest you place EVERYTHING you have to do on a Master List, and only copy over four TO DOs at a time to your daily TO DO list. Do not add anything else to your daily TO DO list UNTIL those four TO DOs are done. Then, pull over four more tasks...and so on.

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