I've been getting better at building up walls to keep daily distractions away from me.
I bought Robin Sharma's book the other day, and he's big on that too. He writes:
"Fashion your entire professional life so as to work within a tight bubble of extreme focus, with a porous barrier that allows in only influences that protect your positivity, fuel your craft, nourish your talent and elevate your public service. Negative stimuli such as superficial social media influencers, videos of people performing silly tricks or awkward dances, the mainstream news, toxic people attempting to pour cold water on your bright flame, uninvited
digital messages, endless notifications mostly about nothing, and pretty much any activity that doesn't allow you to make astronomical progress on your Lifetime Big 5 do not get to cross the barrier. A giant key to exponential productivity is battleproofing your focus ..."
It reminds me of a quote from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least".
If you're a coach who feels like a ping pong ball being batted around by constant distractions and are ready to say "Enough!", check this out:
Marc Mawhinney