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AC Podcast: Distractions

By Todd Henry

Small, unregulated distractions can easily destroy your flow and cause you to spin out into ineffectiveness. Do you know where your most vulnerable spots are? They’re usually in the places of high uncertainty, and high value.

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Todd is the founder of Accidental Creative, the author of The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice, and an in-demand speaker and consultant .

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Karen

Thank you for this! I started listening as I was about to “take a break” from doing nothing really and avoiding” what needs to get done.
- http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry
  
  Great! Glad it was helpful, Karen.
Daren Lewis

Thanks Todd, I was just having this same conversation with a few friends. Walls can be simple things. When I set up my latest work Mac I left the shortcuts to my favorite distractions out of my browser bar. The simple act of entering a URL or typing a search into Google versus the one click ease of a shortcut makes the act of flying off to these particular distractions much less common.
- http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry
  
  Great tactic – I’ll try that one myself. Thanks!
btheninger

Listening to this while I was avoiding writing a sermon and two lessons for this upcoming Sunday
- http://www.accidentalcreative.com Todd Henry
  
  And now…back to work!
http://www.facebook.com/margiedeebprofile Margie Deeb

As an author and artist, this is territory I am intimately familiar with, and have to be vigilant about. I constantly write and refer to lists to keep me on track. Its much easier to focus when the next step is written down in front of me, and harder to do something irrelevant when a list is staring me in the face. This falls in the category of what you said to do: define the tasks. I also use a timer when I am in the midst of uncertainty: I make myself work for short periods (15 or 30 minutes) until I get to the point where the uncertainty is no longer frightening me to the point of distraction. This always works.