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date: 2017-06-11
modified_at: 2018-03-06
tags: [lifestyle, productivity]
description: Practical strategies to diminish distractions as a digital nomad, including blocking tools, creating habits, and maintaining focus despite constant change.
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# How to diminish distractions while being nomadic

This is how I try to diminish distractions to spend my time as effective as I
can:

- Don't get distracted by your phone or computer. Write down important
  thoughts, but focus and concentrate on just one thing for as long as you can
  to stay sharp. Use Freedom.to http://freedom.to/ to make it impossible to
  get distracted.
- Solve attention pollution. Be here and now, even while on the internet. Read
  more [/2017/smartphone-attention-pollution]
- Create habits for yourself so you don't have to doubt everything, even in the
  face of the habit of change (being nomadic). When coming to a new place, just
  choose a daily rhythm and go for it.
- Grow your willpower by achieving self-set challenges and being open about it.
  A good way to do this is GoFuckingDoIt.com https://gofuckingdoit.com/
- Cycle through your life Read more [/distractions]

We are distracted hundreds of times a day, too many times to recover into focus.
See the book 'The Shallows: Impact of Internet on our brains' for some nice
statistics from 2008-2010 about internet and smartphone usage.

This is a good article on the fact that it takes a long time to recover from a
distraction and how distractions impact work. click
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf