Distraction

I think one of my taglines or statements every day is “okay.” I hate small talk in certain situations; it’s better than saying “don’t care.” I hate getting berated by the “don’t care” stuff or the people who go into a tirade about, “well, this person said this,” “the person…

I recently began engaging in Vocal Media’s writing competitions. These challenges are often unique, presenting opportunities to solve a problem creatively. One of the latest ventures was to create an acrostic on distraction. This quandary was unique; I have not written an acrostic since I was in middle school. In…

Are you a procrastinator? Do you have days that go by without accomplishing anything? Days that you just looked at the work you needed to do, but in the end, you didn’t do anything? You’re not alone. The Google term ‘what is procrastination’ results in over 43 million hits. Procrastination is something that has always been there and always will be there. In a way, it makes us human. We have things that we love…

Kanwaldeep Kahlon, a participant of our Deep Work & Flow bootcamp, finished the first draft of his book in just 4 weeks, a task which previously seemed impossible. He accomplished this with just one small change in the way he worked. …

In a world drowned by screens, likes, clicks, and noise, quiet solitude has become rare and hard to find. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, and Einstein all spent countless hours (more like years) in solitude crafting their greatest and most precious gifts to the world, now it is almost impossible…

An acrostic Sorry, what was I saying? I find myself getting distracted far too often when it’s time to write. Does that happen to you, or do you have a good system for blocking the rest of the world out? Here’s an acrostic for the word distraction which includes just…

Do yourself a favor today and tell your phone to shut up. — Even the best-designed and most appropriate notifications imaginable can have unintended consequences. On December 29, 1972, a perfectly airworthy passenger jet was flown into the ground 20 miles from Miami International Airport. …

I’m not kidding… Shiny object syndrome. Business rewards patience and consistency. The more time you spend on a particular business, the more compounding occurs in your favour. What’s the killer of compound interest? Fractured focus. What causes fractured focus? Shiny object syndrome. Seriously, don’t be distracted by the hottest trends…

Hi, classy reader! Gen Z refers to the generation born roughly between 1996-2013. They are the first generation to be fully raised with the internet and smartphones and have grown up experiencing the world very differently from previous generations. In particular, they are globally interconnected with a diverse range of…