How Distractions Kill Your Creativity

And how to break the hold they have over you

Photo by Charlz Gutiérrez De Piñeres on Unsplash

Writing is a profession riddled with reasons not to do it.

Here are a horrible handful:

• I’m tired because I worked over 12 hours at my day job today (and every day this week).
• The latest episode of The Masked Singer is on tonight and I want to see who gets unmasked and who stays another week.
• I need to fold my laundry and put it away.
• I haven’t checked Facebook in an hour and there’s something I might have missed.

Add your excuse for not writing to this list.

But I can’t work 24/7.

Who says you should?

I’m talking about wasted time here.

Facebook was a huge time waster for me. I’d pick up my phone 48 times a day. 34 of those were to check Facebook.

Really?

Thanks, Screen Time.

Honestly, this app doesn’t care how I spend my time. It just reports what I do. If I choose to see this objective data, I can make significant changes.

Seth Godin says when he reduced his checks of the Internet from 50 to 5…