You want to serve strong. You know this requires staying focused on your personal life balance & self care. It means developing a lifestyle of setting and achieving periodic goals and milestones.
But distraction keeps you off course. Life is full of distractions, either coming from sources within you or around you. A page from Mindtools.com indicates that distraction "is damaging to your performance because it interferes with your ability to focus and disrupts flow. It interferes with the attention that you need to apply to maintain good technique."
But how do you successfully overcome distraction?
Mindtools.com provides some insight on "distraction management." Some thoughts include:
- Realize that when you are distracted and make a mistake, you haven't lost your skills. All you've lost is your focus
- Remember that although events may be beyond your control, your reactions to events are entirely controlled by you.
- Think positively. Recognize petter irritations as such, and let them go
- ...check out the entire article for more information
Coping with distraction is primarily a matter of attitude. Either dwell on them and make them bigger than they are, or accept them and bypass them - staying focused on your objectives.
Learn to beat distraction every time and you'll be serving strong!
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